COVID-19: Threats of fines, jail terms not the way to go – expert via TheCitizen_News
Minister of Justice and Correctional Services Ronald Lamola. Picture: Jacques Nelles
This comes after the government introduced new Covid-19 lockdown regulations of a fine or six-month jail time penalty, or both, for any employer, manager or owner of a building used by the public, failing to ensure any person in their premises wore a mask. “When you start threatening people with criminal records for them to comply with regulations it simply means you have not communicated your policies well. The very idea that you can police compliance through jail time, is wrong.
Mathekga said South Africa had a culture of not complying with policies when force was used to ensure compliance. Mathekga said that regulations were not conditions under which people normally existed and in the context of South Africa, it forked up many social issues.“The lockdown has revealed the depth of the inequalities that exist in our country. It has revealed the extent to which others can survive and others cannot,” he said.
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