Sakeliga serves PAIA request to NEDLAC regarding continued lockdown and national mandatory vaccination
Sakeliga has served a PAIA request to NEDLAC to get clarity on NEDLAC’s role in continued restrictions and pressure for national vaccine mandates. The request is for all minutes, documents, and decisions of this statutory entity relating to national mandatory vaccination, vaccination certification and matters dealing with other continued lockdown regulations. The request was served […]
Mandatory vaccinations: A message from our CEO, Piet le Roux
Valued Sakeliga Member, I have compiled a short video message for you about our position on mandatory vaccinations. In it, I advise that we guard our independence, act with moderation, and tolerate differences among businesses. Please watch it at the link below, share and discuss it, and – as before – send me your feedback. […]
Sakeliga issues demand for mandatory end to the state of disaster
Sakeliga’s lawyers have issued a letter of demand for the mandatory end to the ‘national state of disaster’. In the letter, we demand that the National Disaster Management Centre’s (NDMC) Head of Centre, Dr Mmaphaka Tau reassess and rescind his classification of COVID-19 as a ‘national disaster’ by 28 January 2022. The ‘national state of […]
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.
Business organisations oppose national vaccine mandates
Lawyers acting for Sakeliga and four other business organisations have sent a letter regarding the issue of mandatory vaccination to the Presidency. The letter states: ‘Our clients are opposed to state-driven mandatory vaccination policies and monitoring mechanisms such as vaccine passports, penalisation and exclusion of unvaccinated persons, and regulatory obligations on business to aid and enforce mandatory […]
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, […]
Patel’s Companies Amendment Bill is what the economy needs less of
Business group Sakeliga opposes the proposed Companies Amendment Bill and has indicated so to the Department of Trade, Industry and Competition (dtic). The current Bill is an early-stage proposal by Minister Ebrahim Patel and the dtic and is not yet receiving the attention of the relevant portfolio committee at Parliament. “This Companies Amendment Bill is exactly what the economy […]
Constitutional Court confirms the arguments of Sakeliga, announces a new era in dealing with state failure
A new legal precedent for securing electricity at municipal level was finally set last month when the Constitutional Court refused Eskom leave to appeal the so-called Resilient and Sabie* judgments. The judgments, handed down in 2020 by the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) and now confirmed in 2021, are game-changing for efforts against municipal and […]
Sakeliga arguments in Resilient case finally put an end to power and water outages due to non-payment disputes
Government institutions that provide services, including Eskom, will in the future no longer be able to disadvantage paying end users due to non-payment by municipalities. In fact, no dispute between any state institutions may further give rise to prejudice against paying end users. This principle, which was laid down in a ruling of the Supreme […]
Forced vaccination is unwise
Forced vaccination as a prerequisite for participation in day-to-day life is unwise and likely to create more problems than solutions. Mandatory vaccination is disproportionate in respect of the pandemic, in respect of social and political risks, and in respect of the alternatives to such a draconian policy. We do not see it as the path to a flourishing society.