EDITORIAL: One-sided ‘family meetings’ may pose a long-term danger to democracy
The rule by decree that the state of disaster regulations enable is fundamentally undemocratic
01 June 2021 - 05:08
Fourteen months after SA recorded its first Covid-19 cases and went into lockdown, President Cyril Ramaphosa’s updates have thankfully become less dramatic events.
So it was with the Sunday media conference announcing what can be best described as a mild adjustment of restrictions. As expected, and reported by this paper last week, the night-time curfew was extended by an hour and the number of people permitted to gather was cut...
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