State of Disaster extension – ‘It’s an incompetency-fuelled power grab’ - Medical experts and political and economic analysts have slammed the latest extension to the Covid-19 State of Disaster as a “power grab”
to the Covid-19 State of Disaster as a “power grab” by an “incompetent” government that wants to impose “absurd” new health regulations that will be fought in court.
Dr Lumkile Mondi, a lecturer in the School of Economics and Finance at the University of the Witwatersrand, said the latest extension of the State of Disaster to 15 April showed the government was out of touch with the latest research and development relating to the Covid-19 pandemic. Mondli said the government found it easy to kick the can to touch with negative consequences for businesses and households, which have not recovered since the State of Disaster lockdown was introduced in March 2020. He believes the extension was unnecessary and politically motivated.Subscribe to the M&G today for just R30 for the first three months* to gain access to this story and all our best journalism, subscriber-only newsletters, events and a weekly cryptic crossword.
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