The government says that it is withdrawing the national state of disaster.
The Office of the State Attorney says that it has been instructed by the Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs that the government hasIn response to court action brought against the state for the declaration, the State Attorney invited the litigants to withdraw their cases, given that this is the direction being taken.
“We are further instructed that the Head of the National Disaster Management Centre has decided to revoke the classification of the impact of the severe electricity supply constraint as a national disaster. The State Attorney said that given this change of affairs, the relief sought by the litigants are moot.
Solidarity said that the withdrawal of the state of disaster less than two months after it was introduced indicates that opponents were right from the very beginning that the disaster was declared for political reasons.
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