Zille was speaking to party leader John Steenhuisen during his “Coronacast” live discussion on Tuesday.
“Well, you know, the point of this lockdown isn’t so the police can cope. The point of this lockdown is to manage transmissions to what the health-care [sector] can cope with.”“This is about control, that’s what it is — and about authoritarianism,” she said.
She said it was an insidious act because it could concentrate all power in the hands of the executive. “For all we know, it might be [tourism minister Mmamoloko] Kubayi-Ngubane and it might well be [police minister] Bheki Cele and it might be [social development minister] Lindiwe Zulu. All of these people who keep trumping Cyril Ramaphosa and trumping [health minister Zweli] Mkhize.”“We have to be very, very careful because once you give people who are inclined to abuse power real authoritarian power, they don’t give it up very easily.
South Africa Latest News, South Africa Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
The covid apparatchiks would do the apartheid regime proudIf you thought SA was a real democracy, lockdown is a wake-up. Its authoritarian rules should be ringing alarm bells
Read more »
Schelaine Bennett is in a new IGTV series Lockdown Heights - about life in lockdown, filmed under lockdown
Read more »
Lockdown HeightsStarring Clint Brink and Schelaine Bennett, Lockdown Heights is a series about life in lockdown, filmed by the actors at home while under lockdown.
Read more »
Delivery services descend on fast food outlets as lockdown rules easeScores of food delivery drivers descended on food outlets/restaurants over the weekend after the lockdown regulations were eased on Friday.
Read more »
Moving company takes government to court over lockdown rulesThe removals industry, along with thousands of South Africans who are desperate to move into or out of their rented or owned homes, had been expecting this to be allowed by the government by May 1.
Read more »
Moving company takes government to court over lockdown rulesEezi Move on Monday applied for an urgent interdict in the Pretoria high court to enable the removals industry to resume business.
Read more »