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Retired Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke continues hearing submissions at Centurion in Gauteng into whether free and fair Local Government Elections can be held under COVID-19.
One South Africa Movement’s leader Mmusi Maimane, who wanted the October elections to go ahead, argued that the right to life didn’t only relate to the Covid-19 pandemic, but also the conditions under which people were forced to live.
“We must also weigh up the right to life as it pertains to the state of local government,” he said.
Although he admitted that his argument touched on the terrain of politics, he pointed out that the Auditor-General in a recent report found that local government was in a state of collapse.
He said it wouldn’t be fair to ask those citizens to endure the current conditions for longer without them being given the mandate to remove the current councils.
Live proceedings below:
Video Courtesy of SABC.