Guest :  Lawson Naidoo | Executive Secretary at Council For The Advancement Of The

                                          Constitution (Casac)|

The Pretoria High Court has declared the regulations promulgated for COVID-19

lockdown levels four and three as unconstitutional and invalid.

Reyno Dawid de Beer and Liberty Fighters Network challenged the regulations as set by

Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma,

arguing that they encroached on and limited their rights as contained in the Bill of

Rights in the Constitution.

The court found that the lockdown regulations indeed did not satisfy the rationality test

and were not justifiable in an open and democratic society based on human dignity,

equality and freedom as contemplated in Section 36 of the Constitution.