While I fully agree with Trevor Manuel that some of the lockdown rules seem irrational, I am starting to say they are in fact carefully said out merely to subjugate the people (“Some lockdown rules irrational — Manuel (https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/national/2020-05-11-trevor-manuel-says-some-lockdown-rules-are-irrational/)”, May 12).

From a labour legal point of view, the employment and labour minister has been bringing out regulations almost as if he has a form of diarrhoea. Many of these regulations don’t make sense and lend themselves to numerous interpretations...

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