One South Africa Movement leader Mmusi Maimane is heading to the Constitutional Court to challenge the government’s reopening of schools in the face of exponential growth in Covid-19 infections and deaths. Covid19SA Schools
Maimane filed his urgent application for leave to appeal at the Concourt on Tuesday after his bid to halt the reopening of schools on June 1 and 8 and have the decision declared unlawful, irrational, unconstitutional and invalid failed in the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria earlier this month.
Maimane has asked the Concourt to direct that, pending the final approval of the readiness and implementation plan, the alert level 4 regulations, which were effective until May 31, continue to operate and the government to “close and/or not to open any schools until all schools have been declared ready to open”.
“The cumulative and added effect of that on the current dire situation in schools and climbing infection and death rates will be devastating across the nation,” he warned. He told the Concourt that despite South Africa having the world’s 25th largest population it recently became among the top 10 countries with the most Covid-19 infections.
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