THE Democratic Alliance has launched an urgent court bid challenging a national government decision to close Garden Route District beaches for the entire festive season.
Beaches in the district have been closed until January 3 next year.
The party said this regulation is also proving be the final nail in the coffin for the Garden Route’s coastal economies which are nearing total collapse.
“We had provided President Cyril Ramaphosa and Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma with an extended deadline of 10:00 this morning to provide reasons justifying the closure of beaches along the Western Cape’s Garden Route. Both the President and Minister Dlamini-Zuma have failed to respond by the extended hour,” the party’s leader John Steenhuisen said in a statement issued on Thursday.
“The fact that national government has requested additional time to prepare a response to our letter requesting reasons for the decision to close the Garden Route’s beaches, only
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