'If there was proper oversight and scrutiny, we would have had a more rational, less damaging lockdown. This is why the Constitution matters,' said advocate Erin-Dianne Richards.
‘If there was proper oversight and scrutiny, we would have had a more rational, less damaging lockdown. This is why the Constitution matters,’ said advocate Erin-Dianne Richards.
Richards was in conversation with Hermann Pretorius from the SA Institute of Race Relations in a webinar which sought to discuss the Covid-19 lockdown, liberty and law. “The letter has quite a long history – went out on 27 April – by that stage I had been researching for over six weeks. We were concerned that the debate on whether how the country was being run is constitutional, was dead. This propelled us into action,” she explained.
“If there was proper oversight and scrutiny, we would have had a more rational, less damaging lockdown. This is why the Constitution matters,” she argued.
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