WESTERN CAPE NEWS - Premier Alan Winde will join a President’s Coordinating Council meeting later this afternoon as one of the nine Premiers in South Africa.

According to a media statement by the premier:

I will specifically argue for, and provide evidence in support of, letting the National State of Disaster expire in February. 

I will also specifically call for the scrapping of the 1 metre rule at schools, so as to enable an end to rotational learning.

The Western Cape has now officially exited the fourth wave, with evidence clearly pointing to our country entering an “endemic” stage. Our COVID-19 related hospitalisations and deaths remain low, despite the much higher number of cases recorded during the fourth wave.

That is why we need to normalise our COVID-19 response, through existing health legislation, and focus our efforts on tackling unemployment in South Africa.

If we do not scrap the 1 metre rule for schools, specifically, we would be preventing a return to full-time schooling for our children. This undoubtedly would hurt our poorest communities the most, giving effect to a generational catastrophe.

I look forward to a robust discussion on these and other points, and for a bold statement being made in support of jobless South Africans and our country’s children.

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