Dali Mpofu accuses state of sending children into ‘raging fire’ amid Covid-19
The advocate is leading the first major legal challenge to reopening schools as SA’s active coronavirus cases rank 10th in the world
18 June 2020 - 13:01
Advocate Dali Mpofu — who is representing Mmusi Maimane and the One SA Movement in the first major legal challenge to the reopening of schools — has accused the state of sending children into a “raging fire” by asking them to return to classrooms as Covid-19 infections soar.
“No responsible government that sticks to its constitutional obligations can do that,” Mpofu argued on Thursday morning...
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