The Minister in the Presidency Jackson Mthembu has announced that the government is going to appeal against the court decision that threw its lockdown exit strategy into disarray. It follows after the North Gauteng High Court declared that some of the government’s lockdown regulations were unconstitutional and, therefore, invalid. Justice Norman Davis found that both the level 3 and level 4 regulations were “irrational”. Mthembu also announced that the state of disaster would be extended for another month when the three month period expires on the 15th of June. He did not want to comment on the government’s cigarette ban, saying he could not discuss it as it was a matter before the court. – Linda van Tilburg
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