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    Do we need a harder lockdown?

    Surely you jest? Herded into their "houses", on pain of arrest, assault or worse, not allowed to go to work and consequently unpaid, most of them not registered with UIF, of course it was government's responsibility to see food got to them. How do you maintain a lockdown if you don't at least...
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    Do we need a harder lockdown?

    We cannot go back to level 5, for the simple reason that government is completely incapable of feeding millions of underprivileged people in their shacks. It cannot envisage working solutions, partly because it cannot afford to, and partly because it wouldn't have the imagination to do so even...
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    Is relaxing these aspects of the level one lockdown a good idea or a mistake?

    All easing of restrictions is not only a good thing, it's essential. I think government has only hung on to the state of disaster status so as to be able to respond quickly if things really do go pear shaped. I think it's finally been borne in upon even the most dough-headed of them that the...
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    Are you going to visit the liquor store today?

    Not today, but I will make sure I make a turn to get some whisky and brandy before madam Class Suicide thinks she hasn't destroyed the economy enough, and decides to ban it again. Probably next week. I will, however, pick out a decent wine or two at the supermarket if I find anything I fancy.
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    Do you think allowing inter-provincial travel is a good thing considering the risk of spreading COVID-19?

    At some stage or another the nanny from the NCCC must take our harnesses off. We are adults (or supposed to be) and must take responsibility for our own safety. Forcing people to beg pretty please for permission to fly from Joburg to Cape Town is getting ridiculous, like expecting us to put our...
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    Do you think the lockdown curfew serves a purpose?

    If it's the only way to keep alcohol sales open, wine estates and breweries alive, and treasury ticking over, then hell yes!
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    Do you think the alcohol and cigarette bans should be lifted?

    Don't know about the woods, but definitely the Vatican.
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    Do you think cigarette sales should be allowed?

    Definitely. Also an ex smoker. Because smokers prowling in search of illegal smokes risk catching or spreading disease. Because of the economy, stupid. Because I consider prohibition to be kowtowing to one or two ministers' personal dislikes, which makes it abuse of power. Because no valid...
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    Do you think restaurants should be allowed to sell alcohol?

    My answer is definitely a resounding yes, provided limits are set and the restaurant management is empowered to demand the car keys of any patron who is over the limit, and to arrange alternative transport home. Limits could include beer and wine sales only, strict quantity limitations and...
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    Rate the performance of Minister Zweli Mkhize

    Mkhize's alertness ensured that NICD was primed as early as January as to the possible threat of CV. I would have given him an excellent if it wasn't for the fact that there are certain areas still woefully unprepared for a massive influx of patients, and his witch hunt aimed at Glenda Gray. If...
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    Rate the performance of Minister Ebrahim Patel

    Any minister of T&I who hamstrings the country's revenue sources, at a time when it needs them most, by banning almost all forms of free trade and ecommerce, on the basis that it is "unfair", does not belong in that portfolio. He is, indeed, beyond pathetic. Mr Ramaphosa urgently needs to fire...
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    Rate the performance of Minister Bheki Cele

    I won't go as far as calling him "pathetic". Definitely very poor, and his bellowing threats at a nation faced with losing income, access to food, and even the comfort of its usual panaceas, was indeed disgraceful. I will do him the courtesy of acknowledging that he is, despite his firing for a...
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    Rate the performance of Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma

    Absolutely shocking. Everyone focuses on the cigarette and alcohol ban, which was really just par for the course for a blinkered bunch of bureaucrats completely out of touch with reality, but she clearly never even attempted to achieve a "co operative governance" approach between the ministers...
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    Rate the performance of President Cyril Ramaphosa

    He has done well, but is hamstrung by his collective. I think that particular facet of the ANC's composition hindered Nelson Mandela, especially in his efforts to establish an honest, corruption free government. I hope the disgraceful performance of certain of his ministers, and the damage they...
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    South African Fibre-to-the-Home Survey – Win prizes worth R10,000

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