POLITICAL WEEK AHEAD: Clarity on further easing of lockdown expected

Finance minister Tito Mboweni’s supplementary budget will top the agenda in parliament this week

The government is this week expected to provide further updates on the easing of the lockdown.

Earlier in June the DA had filed urgent papers in the high court in Cape Town to have the ban and criminalisation of personal care declared invalid and unconstitutional. Top of the agenda this week in parliament will be finance minister Tito Mboweni’s supplementary budget necessitated by the Covid-19 crisis. The DA will present its review of the emergency budget on Monday.

Also on Tuesday, the matter involving the Thales Group and former president Jacob Zuma will return to the high court in Pietermaritzburg.Judgment on the legal challenge against the ban on cigarette sales could be handed down this week. The Fair Trade Independent Tobacco Association approached the courts to have the ban — introduced as part of lockdown measures — reviewed and overturned. Concerns about an increase in illicit trade and loss of tax revenue because of the ban have been raised.

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