Gyms, hairdressers and tattoo parlours are being deprived of the right to practise their trade, says MP Dean Macpherson
More of the government’s lockdown regulations are set to come under legal scrutiny after the DA on Monday filed urgent papers in the high court in Cape Town to have the ban and criminalisation of “personal care” services, which includes hairdressers, declared invalid and unconstitutional.
Another court challenge by Reyno de Beer of Liberty Fighters Network, a little-known organisation of which De Beer is president, against co-operative governance & traditional affairs minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma recently declared the lockdown invalid. The government has said it will appeal the judgment.
“We also believe that it is simply unjustifiable that almost every other industry is allowed to operate subject to health projects except the personal care industry,” Macpherson said. The DA believes that the minister’s indefinite “ban” violates section 22 of the constitution, which allows citizens the right to practise their trade, occupation or profession freely, which may be regulated by law.
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