End Covid state of disaster

The Disaster Management Act was abused for months on end in 2020 and 2021 to impose draconian police state conditions on the public, with arbitrary measures such as a ban on the sale of alcohol and hot chicken. Lockdowns by the central government caused tremendous harm to business environments, economies, and the social order. Sakeliga succeeded with a court application in the High Court in Pretoria in preventing the national state of disaster from being renewed without the National Disaster Management Centre determining whether Covid-19 met the definition of a "disaster". Sakeliga's unique stance was that a “national state of disaster” could not be extended in the absence of a continuously updated classification by the National Disaster Management Centre of a situation as an objective "disaster" and "national disaster". - The litigation established a requirement for a continually updated objective assessment of a “disaster” (as defined in legislation) before the extension of a national state of disaster. - Uncontrolled extensions of national states of disaster can henceforth be tested against the standard of regular updated objective assessments.