Helen Zille has said they've been heartened by the support they're getting for their legal challenges against both the new lockdown laws and the processes being used to create them.
Helen Zille attends a DA press briefing, 17 November 2019. Picture: Tracy Lee Stark
The DA said in a statement on Saturday that they had to upgrade the capacity of their online donations system after the “overwhelming” response from South Africans trying to give them money in the fight against the lockdown regulations caused it to crash. DA leader John Steenhuisen had announced on Thursday that the party would seek legal remedy through the courts on “irrational measures such as the e-commerce ban , the three-hour exercise window and the military-enforced curfew”.
She pointed out that already in the past seven weeks, they had issued over 40 sets of regulations, comprising hundreds of pages of new legislation, governing almost every aspect of South Africans’ lives, “from when we may leave our homes and for what purpose, who we may visit, when and where we may exercise, what we may buy and what we may wear – to name a few”.
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