'Too restrictive', DA forges ahead with campaign for softer lockdown regulations | Day34ofLockdown
This comes as the 35-day level five hard lockdown ends at midnight on Thursday, which will see the country moved down to level four of the process, where more businesses will be allowed to operate at a restricted level to avoid the spread of coronavirus in the workplace.
In its submitted comments to Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma ahead of the publishing of the framework as regulations, the DA complained that the government was “too incremental” and that the incoming level four resembled the current hard lockdown of level five.
“We need to open up the economy far more than it is being opened up. Some of the regulations are blunt instruments. Some of them are not targeted enough and won’t have the desired effect of opening up the economy sufficiently so that we protect South Africans from the dual threat of a loss of life due to the virus and the loss of livelihoods in SA,” Steenhuisen said.
IFP chief whip Narend Singh said the IFP was supportive of the regulations provided they were fully guided by experts and the country’s infection rate.
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