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Health department sees public opposition to new powers as ‘instigating terrorism’

Emails surface in case challenging proposed health regulation changes, revealing what officials think of opposers.

“Anti-progressive”, “instigating terrorism”, “sabotage” and “forcing government to waste resources” – this is how groups opposed to government’s proposed health regulations are characterised in internal emails floating around the Department of Health.

The emails were discovered during a court process initiated by public participation group DearSA, which received more than 300 000 comments from South Africans on proposed changes to health regulations that would arm the state with unprecedented powers to contain future outbreaks of ‘notifiable diseases’ such as Yellow Fever, Smallpox and Covid.

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Via moneyweb.co.za
14 June 2022