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TimesLive reports that civil rights organisation AfriForum and the public participation platform DearSA have launched a court application challenging government’s regulations for managing Covid-19 after the end of the state of disaster.
In the application filed on Monday, the organisations asked the High Court in Pretoria to review and set aside the decision of the Minister of Health to publish regulations relating to the surveillance and control of notifiable medical conditions, which were gazetted on 4 May. The organisations also want the court to declare the regulations to be inconsistent with the constitution and invalid. AfriForum said it and DearSA also questioned the validity of the public participation process followed by the department before the regulations were implemented. The two organisations said they submitted more than 310,000 public comments combined. “AfriForum will fight these regulations in the highest courts, if necessary, to ensure that citizens’ rights are fully restored. Citizens are fed up with government’s constant encroachment on their personal freedoms,” AfriForum’s Jacques Broodryk said. The Minister of Health has been given until 17 May to indicate whether he intends to oppose the application.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Ernest Mabuza at BusinessLive
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