South Africa must not allow Health Act amendments to replace State of Disaster regulations

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Today, we have written an open letter to the Minister of Health, Joe Phaahla, calling on him to retract these amendments as we believe that is it a transparent and opportunistic attempt to extend the unilateral power that the South African government afforded themselves during the State of Disaster.

We call on all South Africans to scrutinise these proposed amendments and to lodge their objection before or on the 16 April 2022.

We suffered under the restrictions of the National State of Disaster for 750 days. This led to enormous hardship and devastation to our country’s economy and to people’s lives and livelihoods.

We cannot afford for it to be normalised.