DA Calls For Ramaphosa To End Lockdown Or Face Civil Unrest

As millions of South Africans chafe under the coronavirus lockdown, DA’s interim leader John Steenhuisen has urged President Cyril Ramaphosa to lift the lockdown, which is aimed at limiting the spread of the coronavirus.

In a fiery address to the nation on Friday, Steenhuisen said his party has also filed for a PAIA application to obtain the minutes of the National Coronavirus Command Council and how it arrived at certain decisions and how it amended some regulations, including the ban of the sale of tobacco and cigarettes.

“It is crucial that we all know exactly why, according to government, we’re still in this destructive lockdown,” said Steenhuisen.

“What we do know is that government’s very own epidemic expert, Professor Salim Abdool Karim, thinks this lockdown has already run its course and is of little more use. In fact, this was his view already two weeks ago. Yet here we still