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State of Disaster extended...AGAIN...and unlikely to be the last

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For two years now South Africa has been in a constant National State of Disaster granting the government extraordinary powers. Despite speculation that the world's longest lockdown would finally come to an end on 15 March, a simple tweet at 9am from the Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Ministry put that notion to rest. The National State of Disaster - that keeps several Covid-19 regulations in place - has been extended by yet another month. Prof Dewald van Niekerk, head of the African Centre for Disaster Studies at the North West University, believes it won't be the last extension either. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
15 Mar 2022 7AM English South Africa Investing · Business News

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