Judge trashes entire lockdown regime as constitutionally flawed - The Mail & Guardian

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The high court ruling will delight gatvol South Africans but is unlikely to stand the test of time.

and other court actions on different aspects of the lockdown regulations. Then, suddenly, came a judgment that, in one fell swoop, struck down the entire regulatory regime that South Africa has been living under since the announcement of a national state of disaster at the end of March.

But, he said, the evidence before him — an affidavit from the co-operative governance and traditional affairs director-general on behalf of the minister — did not show that Dlamini-Zuma had considered each of the regulations individually in terms of their constitutionality. Although some regulations passed constitutional muster, “in an overwhelming number of instances” the regulations had not been justified by Dlamini-Zuma.

All of these arguments were rejected by the judge. But on individual regulations — the basis on which the case was decided — the founding affidavit was notably sweeping.

 

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another dinosaur that must be put to pasture to let the up to date, younger, more educated generation run this country properly. her generation has no idea.

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Yes No Brainer really.

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