Sakeliga demands answers from the Department of Health and proposes that municipal governments do not police lockdown and curfew rules
As 2021 draws to a close, Sakeliga has sent out two important letters to national and local governments pertaining to Covid-19. A letter from our attorneys to the National Department of Health regarding its withdrawal of contact tracing, quarantine and isolation protocols related to coronavirus Covid-19. A letter to all mayors, municipal managers, and local law-enforcement decision-makers advising them to shield their towns and local economies from lockdown harms. 1) Letter to the Department of […]
Sakeliga Court Case: Dlamini-Zuma persists in delaying tactics to withhold lockdown records
Sakeliga has been struggling for several months now to obtain the co-operation of Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs, Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, in a court case that Sakeliga launched on 5 August 2021 to compel the Minister to disclose certain records of decision-making on lockdown regulations. After having been more than 50 court days* […]
Sakeliga: Government delays in special paymaster case necessitate judicial case management
Sakeliga will be filing its request for special allocation with the office of the Judge-President within the next couple of weeks, for the purpose of requesting the court to apply judicial case management to bring the matter to trial as soon as possible.
Sakeliga supports property rights of firearm owners in Constitutional Court case
Sakeliga recently applied to be joined as amicus curiae – friend of the court – in a case in the Constitutional Court for the purpose of protecting the property rights of owners of firearms. The right of numerous firearm owners to legally possess their firearms is currently under siege because of the refusal by the police to receive new applications for firearm licences where licences could […]
Sakeliga Statement: Defeat of 18th Amendment only first step in stopping EWC
The defeat of the Eighteenth Amendment in Parliament is a necessary but insufficient step in the direction of restoring constitutional normalcy on property rights. The immediate next step is for Parliament to take any further discussion of property confiscation off its agenda, and for it to refuse to adopt the Expropriation Bill.
Letter to members about forced vaccinations
Dear valued Sakeliga members, On Sunday night, President Cyril Ramaphosa made another nationally televised statement about Covid-19 developments. Below, you will find a letter on the matter by me and my colleague, Russell Lamberti. The views we outline, especially regarding state enforced vaccination, are likely to find some of you in agreement and others not, or something in between. Whichever the case, […]
Statement regarding compulsory vaccines and travel restrictions
Sakeliga regards President Cyril Ramaphosa’s Covid-19 statement on Sunday evening significant in both helpful and harmful ways. We are deeply concerned at his suggestions that vaccination could become compulsory, and his vagueness about what he intends to replace the state of disaster with. We welcome his criticism of scientifically baseless foreign political decisions on travel-restrictions […]
Sakeliga can now enforce criminal sanction against NW municipal manager
Sakeliga is considering approaching the High Court in Mahikeng for an order that the municipal manager of the Kgetlengrivier Municipality in the North-West, is in contempt of court and be sentenced to imprisonment or a fine or both. These steps are being considered as Kgetlengrivier Municipality has for more than five months been in contempt of a court order that certain records related to service delivery and finances […]
2021 Mini-budget confirms the merit of Sakeliga’s strategy of state-proofing
Sakeliga regards Thursday’s mid-year budget update from National Treasury as another confirmation of the need for businesses and communities to state-proof themselves as much as possible. Finance minister Enoch Gondongwana’s mini-budget confirmed that the government does not take seriously enough the fiscal crisis it has created since 2009. The government has committed to incur 350 to 400 billion rand – around 6% of GDP – worth of new […]
Sakeliga submission on Companies Amendment Bill, 2021
Sakeliga took opportunity to provide a short comment on the proposed Companies Amendment Bill, 2021. Sakeliga opposes the proposed Companies Amendment Bill and has indicated so to the Department of Trade, Industry and Competition (dtic). See below, the submission made to the Department of Trade, Industry and Competition on 29 October 2021. Sakeliga submission on Companies […]