Reyno de Beer’s Liberty Fighters Network (LFN) on Tuesday won an urgent court application to have the lockdown regulations declared invalid. He said he was underestimated by the South African government.
The African National Congress’s (ANC) vision of a ‘new economy’ is now on the table, marking an apparent victory for the Radical Economic Transformation faction. Now that the ‘new economy’ vision is out, President Cyril Ramaphosa will no longer be able to convincingly sell the country as an investment destination.
The South African Communist Party (SACP), which has long used its dominance over the African National Congress (ANC) to set the policy agenda for the ruling party, reiterated last week that it wants to ‘mobilise’ the ‘ample resources’ in both ‘public and private financial institutions’ to finance ‘sustainable recovery and development’ by introducing ‘investment requirements’ or ‘prescribed assets’.
It seems to be a week of absorbing court judgements. Tuesday’s from Mr Justice Norman Davis was under a quarter of Ms Justice Ronel Tolmay’s SAA epic, but no less scathing on the defendant – Davis said many of COGTA minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma’s lockdown regulations were “irrational, distressing, unconstitutional and paternalistic.”
Additionally and according to the judgment, in order to successfully self-quarantine or self-isolate, a person requires access to a separate room where the person should self isolate.
The landmark judgment on Tuesday by the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria reining in a state which started out with the support of most South Africans in resisting the spread of the coronavirus, sets out the thrust of its arguments with a lengthy quote by former US attorney general Robert Kennedy.
While few industries have been spared by the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, even fewer have been hit harder than the tourism sector. And while it is impossible to gauge the full extent of disruption brought on by COVID-19, the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) published estimates on how the pandemic will affect international tourist arrivals in 2020 under three different scenarios.
Last October, Uğur Şahin traveled from Germany to New York to launch the initial public offering of his decade-old biotechnology company with a message about its new and unproven technology. “We rely on the patient’s immune system,” Şahin said before ringing the opening bell at Nasdaq’s market site. “We want to activate the patient’s immune cells to identify, to detect, and eliminate tumor cells.”
Yoram Lass, former director of Israel’s Health Ministry, on the hysteria around Covid-19.
As a pathologist, I’m used to people thinking that my job mainly involves dealing with death. But nothing could be further from the truth. That is why I and many of my colleagues are so dismayed by changes introduced during the coronavirus epidemic which mean that pathology has not been able to play the role that it should have in helping to understand this new disease.
JOHANNESBURG – The COVID-19 lockdown alert levels 3 and 4 have been declared invalid and unconstitutional.
The High Court in Pretoria has handed down this judgment. The court, however, suspended the declaration of invalidity for a period of 14 days.
Norway is assembling a picture of what happened before lockdown and its latest discovery is pretty significant. It is using observed data – hospital figures, infection numbers and so on – to construct a picture of what was happening in March. At the time, no one really knew.
There is a breathtaking level of police violence in South Africa, and only Kenya and Nigeria have seen more people killed.
Online travel website Tourlane’s new survey found that South Africa was chosen as the most popular post-Covid-19 destination among travellers.
The opposition party is challenging the legitimacy of the Disaster Management Act in an attempt to challenge the coronavirus lockdown regulations
There are no easy answers, but focusing this much on a single problem has destroyed much of our children’s future – at least 3m people are going to be joining the unemployment queue.
A draft new South African Airways (SAA) Business Rescue Plan, prepared by Business Rescue Practitioners (BRPs) Siviwe Dongwana and Les Matuson; and seen by the Democratic Alliance (DA), reveals that the government has agreed to a new R21 billion bailout for SAA.
Certainly one of the most celebrated academic flops in history. Still not a sound about his failure from the South African government. Maybe because his model is still worshipped here?
Triple board-certified M.D., Dr. Zach, joins Del in an evolutionary discussion on why Coronavirus is here, what it’s trying to tell us, and how we emerge from the darkness.
President Cyril Ramaphosa has said that scientists who are advising government on the response to the coronavirus crisis recommended that South Africa could move to Level 1 of the nationwide lockdown, as it had become a “blunt tool” in curbing the spread of the pandemic in the country.
