In an interview with Talk Radio 702 on Wednesday, Mkhize said in an emergency situation mistakes could have been made.
Health Minister Zweli Mkhize said mistakes in lockdown regulations were bound to happen because government was dealing with a new situation “that none of us really know how to go about”.
In a scathing judgment on Tuesday, Judge Norman Davis ruled that in government’s lockdown regulations there was little or no regard to the extent of the impact of individual regulations on the constitutional rights of people and whether the extent of the limitation of their rights was justifiable or not.The application was brought by the Liberty Fighters Network and the Hola Bon Renaissance Foundation.
“Our biggest issue is that whatever was done was done with the view to try and help contain the spread of the infection,” he said. “When it comes to implementation, you find there might be areas where things begin to clash, you try to align certain things. It was bound to happen that at some point we begin to get people looking at their own interest, their own constituencies therefore finding where they disagree on this and the other,” the minister said in the interview.
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