Steenhuisen says the country's economy could barely withstand the initial three weeks and the extension had come at a cost to millions while there was very little to show for it in return.
Steenhuisen says the country’s economy could barely withstand the initial three weeks and the extension had come at a cost to millions while there was very little to show for it in return.
The DA leader said there was “no rational justification” to extend the lockdown beyond the initial three weeks which “caused irreparable damage to the country’s economy”. Steenhuisen said the country’s economy could barely withstand the initial three weeks and the extension had come at a cost to millions while there was very little to show for it in return.
“Their part of the so-called social compact President Ramaphosa speaks of, but the other end of this deal never materialised. Government didn’t use the past five weeks to ready itself for the wave of infections and it didn’t use the time to find and help those South Africans most in need,” he added. “So while the DA welcomes this move to alert Level 3, we must stress that it comes far too late for millions of South Africans who have already paid heavily for government’s dithering. And why should this only come into effect a week from now?
“We call on President Ramaphosa to provide us with the scientific justification for the continuation of this ban, which is costing our country hundreds of millions of Rands in missed tax revenue.
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