The human rights advocacy organization, IRR is calling for the National Coronavirus Command Council (NCCC) to be disbanded.
According to the organization, says NCCC established at the declaration of the National State of Disaster on March 15, 2020, over 570 days ago, acts as a super-legislator, abrogating the role of parliamentary oversight.
For this reason, and others set out below, the IRR believes it is time for the Command Council to be disbanded.To this end, the Institute has launched a petition to enable South Africans to endorse the call for the disbandment of the NCCC and the restoration of democratic accountability.
The Command Council is non-democratic, as the effects of its decision-making amount to de facto laws that severely limit rights enshrined in the Bill of Rights without transparent justification. It abrogates the role of parliamentary oversight.
”Even if it was temporarily acceptable for the Command Council to trump democratic norms, this cannot be allowed to continue while South Africa enjoys “green-light” low levels of Covid-19.The Command Council is set up to last forever. The scientific consensus is that, on the balance of probabilities, Covid-19 is destined to become “endemic”, meaning that it will remain in circulation indefinitely.All current vaccines are non-sterilising, the virus has exhibited the capacity to evolve “escape mutations” that render convalescent protection non-sterilising, and no sterilising vaccine is on the horizon.”
”The Command Council is an arm of a corrupt state. The Digital Vibes scandal is just one indication that the level of maladministration that South Africans have sadly learned to expect from the national government has been no less prominent in its response to the pandemic”
