Which lockdown restrictions should be lifted?

Not really sure why cigarettes can’t be sold? One would have thought government is desperate for income right now. They shooting themselves in the foot. While smokers will suffer greater consequences if infected, stopping for 6 weeks isn’t going to make much of a difference.

I can understand why big ticket items and clothing can’t be sold. You want shoppers in and out in quick time. You want to limit the production and shipping of stock items too.... the ban is all about down scaling.
 
Mabhodoza said:
I think alcohol and cigarettes should be sold since they are now breaking in to liquor stores and also clothing stores should be opened at least for a week so we can buy winter clothes.
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This. I don't think government realise that shebeens are a major part of life in townships. So they start looting liquor stores. Nothing happens. Then the looting spreads....
 
saor said:
I'm surprised people want to eat stuff that who knows how many other people have been handling?
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No offence, but how do you think food on the shelves of supermarkets are handled (before and up to being placed on the shelves)? And then how many shoppers have handled the items on the shelves before you grab something? And then go to a till, where a human cashier has had hundreds of people pass through with those same goods?
 
The early closure of spaza shops
Alcohol and cigarettes
Im a non smoker non drinker but its sad to see people pay so much on alcohol
 
Please open the deeds office so that my property purchase can be transferred into my name!
 
All products and services must be made available. Onsite business requires permission and the rest must be channelled through online orders and deliveries. The current CIPC clearance implementation is broken, and there is no way compliance can be checked to ensure 'Competitive Fairness'. The lockdown has already harmed the trust component in business.

I would say that the police must need to roadblock districts, to rollout permanent checkpoints to keep people within districts. Allow people to go to the shops in limited numbers, as now, and allow socialising within these areas with a social distancing guideline. The only roadblocks that I have seen during the lockdown were one on the N2 at the R44 and the other on the R44 at Broadway/Onverwacht. This requires tuning, a lot more needs to go into this as people will be quick to disobey the law, and to remind the ministries that there are still rights that need to be protected under the Disaster Management Act.

The screening teams must also be trained to educate the couriers and to approve individuals. Issue them with permits which they may present on request that they are trained to take the best care under the circumstances.

I believe people should still be disallowed to go to work as that would break the current containment. It is time to entertain virtualisation, to do more than 'Teams', and do a little bit mixed reality unless you have a shop selling physical and perishable goods then you should be there. Likewise with any person who needs to be onsite, including consultants like engineers, planners, etc., but those doing indirect consultation and selling digital goods online, they can be limited.

Religious institutions must also take their communities online.

In my opinion, we are still short on tests and though I believe we do have containment we don't control these areas. Outbreaks are still possible at the moment and with the looting going on... nonetheless, the economy needs to move.

This lockdown is going to have consequences. The legal people have work to do.

It is sad that we have poor internet reach in SA, the internet could have been leveraged to continue schooling albeit limited schooling.

Frameworks, continuity should have already been in place prior to executing the Disaster Management Act. Many countries were caught with their pants down, some managed to pull it up better than others.
 
Cig sales.... people can brew their own alcohol but cant grow their own tobacco leaves
 
All self-employed people should be allowed to resume with their work.
 
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