National state of disaster ‘no longer justified’

AfriForum and DearSA launched an application in the High Court in Pretoria seeking a declaration of the Covid pandemic no longer being a disaster.

February 4, 2022
Bernadette Wicks Less than a minute
2 April 2020 - Cape Town,South Africa : Empty streets in the city of Cape Town during the lockdown for Covid-19.

Calls for the scrapping of the national state of disaster – which the country has now been under for almost two years – ramped up this week, with lobby groups AfriForum and DearSA turning to the courts.

The two on Wednesday launched an application in the High Court in Pretoria in which they want an order declaring that the Covid pandemic is no longer a disaster in terms of the Disaster Management Act (DMA) and setting aside the latest extension of the national state of disaster to 15 February. More here.

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February 4, 2022
Bernadette Wicks Less than a minute

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