SOWETAN | The second, and arguably more important, is that government conceded that its implementation, communication and enforcement of the regulations has at times been found wanting.
With the DA, the official opposition, leading the charge, many South Africans, in particular the business classes, had grown frustrated by what they viewed as the president's silence in the face of the increasing economic disaster brought by the current national lockdown.
The second, and arguably more important, is that government conceded that its implementation, communication and enforcement of the regulations has at times been found wanting. While this may be true, we believe that the president's concessions, while welcome, did not go far enough to compel behavioural change among the culprits in the state.
This is crucially important because those who hold state power and abuse it when enforcing restrictions do so invoking his name.
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