Piet le Roux, CEO of business chamber Sakeliga, says politics, ideology, vested interests and executive incapacity are blocking relatively quick and easy solutions to the existential crisis facing small businesses because of sustained stage 4 to 6 blackouts.
With allegations of unpaid former suppliers, new suppliers not meeting requirements and the tender being rigged, forensic auditor and fraud risk management consultant Bart Henderson talks of 'deliberate sabotage of the new administration, blatant insubordination or blatant opportunism, or a com.
Three weeks after the mask mandate was lifted, Covid-19 cases have not risen sharply, but Minister of Health Joe Phaahla says a mask mandate must remain available in case of future coronavirus waves.
Court papers by non-profit organisation Sakeliga state that interim regulations were substantially and procedurally irrational, and that Minister of Health Dr Joe Phaahla's approach had been incoherent and disingenuous.