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BL Premium reports that the government is likely to extend the national state of disaster beyond the one-month extension announced on Tuesday, because the extension may not provide enough time for public consultation on alternative legislation for managing the pandemic.
President Cyril Ramaphosa is under growing pressure to lift the state of disaster and allow the economy to fully reopen after two years of dampened activity. SA is under lockdown level 1 restrictions which, while less stringent than levels 2 to 5, nevertheless impose limits on the size of gatherings and curtail activity in the sport and leisure sectors. The sweeping powers the regulations give to ministers have also given rise to concern about the potential erosion of constitutional rights. Shortly after the president’s state of the nation address in February, the cabinet said the state of disaster would end on 15 March, but on Tuesday evening co-operative governance & traditional affairs minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma announced it has been extended for another month. This had been done, she said, "to take account of the need to continue augmenting the existing legislation and contingency arrangements undertaken by organs of state to address the impact of the state of disaster". The government is apparently planning to invite public comment on draft regulations to the various acts required to manage the coronavirus pandemic or another major health threat, and that process is unlikely to be completed by 15 April,
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Tamar Kahn at BusinessLive (subscriber access only)
- Lees ook, Ramptoestand wéér verleng, by Maroela Media
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