National Assembly Speaker Thandi Modise says she is “quite relieved” that she won’t be forced to violate government’s Covid-19 shutdown regulations by crossing provincial lines to attend her now-postponed trial for animal abuse.

She said doing so was a “risk” that she was grateful she now did not need to take and urged South Africans to obey the state’s regulations “until the danger has passed”...

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