EDITORIAL: Gauteng adds to uncertainty with lockdown call
Health MEC Bandile Masuku urges hard lockdown to curb Covid-19 infections in the province
05 July 2020 - 17:25
“Nobody goes to work and no-one moves. Then the economy opens up again for a particular period of time and then it closes again. So at least there is predictability and you can control infections in that way.”
These words were obviously not uttered by someone who has ever run a business and provide yet more evidence of how unaware ANC leaders are of the impact of their words and actions on the economy. We hope that premier David Makhura will not heed the advice of his health MEC, Bandile Masuku, as quoted in the Sunday Times. If it goes that far, President Cyril Ramaphosa should veto such a plan...
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