DA welcomes Patel’s decision to unban e-commerce

The Democratic Alliance welcomed the unbanning of all e-commerce by Minister of Trade, Industry and Competition, Ebrahim Patel during the lockdown.

In a statement, DA MP Dean Macpherson said Patel should not be applauded for doing what was clearly the right and logical thing from the very beginning. “This repositioning by the minister follows unrelenting public pressure and legal action that the DA had initiated today in the high court against the banning of unfettered access to e-commerce by South Africans,” he said.Macpherson said the minister had to learn a “painful lesson that citizens will not tolerate his high-handed ideological madness that he was currently inflicting on us as he seeks to determine what freedoms and rights people should enjoy under the lockdown”.

He had no choice. Either that or the courts would have told him to do it.

Running in fear.Comfort buying in this time of stress will increase the amount of pple that R in debt.This decision is directed 4 the rich N 2 shove the middle class more into debt,it is a wise decision 4 the country..not for the many South Africans that will fall into the trap

DeanMacpherson Petty patel clung onto an unjustifiable, illogical and plain stupid law for months. Only conceding at the last minute because of looming legal action by DearSA and others. To try and give credit to patel is absurd! He must be fired! He is so obviously incapable and incompetent

To unban the ecommerce is good thing to do, it shouldn't be banned in the first place.

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