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Sakeliga v President of RSA and Others
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Sakeliga v President van RSA en Andere
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Sakeliga v President of RSA and Others
Begin / Start
Dec 1, 2020
Tipe / Type
Litigasie / Litigation
Hof
Hooggeregshof: Pretoria
Court
High Court: Pretoria
Litigasiefase
Gunstige uitspraak
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Sakeliga het in Mei 2020 ’n dringende hofaansoek in die hooggeregshof geloods om weg te doen met Ebrahim Patel, Minister van Handel en Nywerheid, se nuwe vereiste dat besighede wat tydens die sogenaamde nasionale staat van inperking vir Covid-19 wou oop bly, ‘n “noodsaaklike diens” sertifikaat by die CIPC moes verkry. Patel se sertfikate, en die inkorporasie daarvan by ramptoestandregulasies, het duisende besighede en eenmansake wat nie by die CIPC geregistreer was nie, blootgestel aan vervolging en teistering deur die polisie weens sogenaamde verontagsaming van grendelstaatregulasies. Dit het ook ’n nuwe besgheidslisensiëringsregime ingelui wat waarskynlik sou voortbestaan na die afskaffing van die nasionale staat van inperking en die monitering en regulering van besighede sou verskerp.
Sakeliga was suksesvol met die dringende aansoek met die gevolg dat besighede nie langer blootgestel is aan vervolging en teistering indien hulle nie ‘n CIPC “noodsaaklike dienste” sertifikaat in hul besit gehad het nie.
Summary
In May 2020 Sakeliga launched an urgent court application in the High Court to do away with the new requirement by Ebrahim Patel, Minister of Trade and Industry, that businesses that wanted to remain open during the so-called national lockdown for Covid-19 had to obtain an “essential service” certificate from the CIPC. Patel’s certificates and their incorporation into state of disaster regulations exposed thousands of businesses and sole proprietorships not registered with the CIPC to prosecution and harassment by the police on the grounds of allegedly disregarding lockdown regulations. It also introduced a new business licensing regime that was likely to be continued following the termination of the lockdown and could have increased monitoring and regulation of businesses.
Sakeliga’s urgent application was successful, with the result that businesses no longer were exposed to prosecution and harassment purely because they did not have a CIPC “essential services” certificate in their possession.
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