THE government’s decision to further extend South Africa’s national state of disaster until 15 April 2022 has been met by significant resistance by opposition parties, businesses, and civil society groups – and now faces a raft of legal challenges.
The opposition Democratic Alliance has slammed the extension as ‘unjustified’, noting that it was done without proper consultation with experts or the President’s Coordinating Council (PCC), with no explanation to the public, and with zero accountability to parliament.
The party now plans to bring a motion of no confidence against Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (Cogta) minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma and other members of president Cyril Ramaphosa’s cabinet. “It is time minister Dlamini-Zuma was fired. Her brand of irrational dictatorship is eroding the economy and causing job losses on a massive scale,” it said.
These concerns were echoed by opposition party ActionSA, which said it will begin exploring all possible avenues to
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