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A fire gutted the Southern Strand library in Cape Town on Saturday.
All that remained were pieces of mangled metal, glass and a carpet of blackened remains of books.
The roof was also destroyed.
A fire gutted the Southern Strand library in Cape Town on Saturday, destroying rows of books which students and residents rely on.
All that remained were pieces of mangled metal, glass and a carpet of blackened remains of the library s collection.
The skeletons of chairs lay askew in the thick pile of destroyed books. The damage to the facility is devastating and will leave hundreds of regular users of the facility stranded, while we urgently look to initiate the process of having services restored, said City of Cape Town councillor Zahid Badroodien after a site visit, in a statement on Twitter.
“The seriousness and the magnitude of the threat to life brought about by the pandemic cannot be exaggerated.
“It had the potential, and continues to have the potential, to cause devastation on a scale that, only a short while ago, people could not have begun to imagine. Drastic measures were required and an excess of caution was called for, especially given the limited knowledge about Covid-19, even among experts in the field of epidemiology.”
These paragraphs appear in a Supreme Court of Appeal judgment handed down on Thursday.
Eight residents – Duwayne Esau, Neo Mkwane, Tami Jackson, Lindo Khuzwayo, Mikhail Manuel, Riaan Salie, Scott Roberts and Mpiyhake Dlamini – initially approached the Western Cape High Court to challenge the lawfulness of the establishment and functioning of the National Coronavirus Command Council (NCCC) and whether some previously enforced lockdown regulations were justifiable.
The government s decision to impose Level 4 lockdown regulations was procedurally fair.
The SCA dismissed an application by a group of Cape Town residents, who challenged the constitutionality of the lockdown regulations.
The court found the NCCC s policy decision to be valid.
The government s decision to impose Level 4 lockdown regulations was made in a procedurally fair manner and in terms of a rational decision-making process .
Hearing an appeal of a Western Cape High Court ruling, the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) dismissed an application by a group of concerned residents, who challenged the lawfulness of the establishment of the National Coronavirus Command Council (NCCC) and the validity of the lockdown rules.