The SAHRC grilled MPs about police and SANDF conduct during the Covid-19 lockdown, as well as issues such as food delivery
An SANDF soldier directs residents during a food distribution in Diepsloot, Johannesburg, on May 8 2020. Picture: AFP/EMMANUEL CROSET
The commission was subjected to a barrage of questions by opposition MPs on Friday about what it is doing to counter the human rights abuses occurring under the Covid-19 lockdown. African Christian Democratic Party MP Steve Swart called on the SAHRC to take much stronger action against breaches of human rights under the lockdown and to hold the government to account. The UN Commission on Human Rights has condemned the excessive force being used to enforce SA’s lockdown regulations.
However, EFF MP Mbuyiseni Ndlozi said opposition parties are intent on undermining the lockdown and it is “fundamentally petty” to be concerned about people being denied the right to go to the beach, for example, when people are dying in the coronavirus pandemic.
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