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A group called Dear South Africa has addressed the Johannesburg High Court giving Cogta Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma until December 1 to give reasons why this case should not continue.
Minister for Cooperative Governance, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma. Image: @ NationalCoGTA / Twitter
JOHANNESBURG – Cooperative Governance Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma has two weeks to respond to court documents presented by a group called Dear South Africa, which argues that the lockdown should not be extended any further.
The group has approached the Johannesburg High Court and given the minister until December 1 to explain the reasons why this case should not go ahead.
The group wants to ensure that the state of disaster, which was declared in March, is not extended again.
He maintains that the closure was declared to give the government time to prepare its health response.
Dear South Africa Group Managing Director Rob Hutchingson said they wanted Parliament to have oversight powers when these decisions were made.
“With the danger with the state of disaster, the minister has absolute power to institute relationships and new laws and bring us back to level five. We need to remove that power and any further development will have to go through Parliament and require parliamentary oversight.”
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