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 […]
Prevent monopolisation of service delivery by municipalities (SALGA case)
PREVENT MONOPOLISATION OF SERVICE DELIVERY BY MUNICIPALITIES (SALGA CASE) Support This Case Why this case? Sakeliga instructed its attorneys to apply for joinder as amicus curiae (friend of the court) in a court case in which the applicant, SALGA, asks for a declaratory order that municipalities enjoy an exclusive right to distribute electricity within their […]