Lockdown: Citizens Have Right To Sue Govt – Ramaphosa
May 19, 2020
8:42 am
As legal challenges to the South African government’s coronavirus lockdown mount, President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Monday he could not stop anyone taking them to court.
“Since the start of this crisis, a number of people have exercised their right to approach the courts,” Ramaphosa wrote in his weekly letter to the nation, adding this was a normal tenet of a constitutional democracy.
Ramaphosa chose to address the issue as the country heads into its eighth week of lockdown and voices criticising the government’s measures grow louder.
Although the country had more than 15,500 confirmed cases by Sunday, more …
