SOUTH Africa’s business leaders and economic experts have called for the introduction of strong measures to bring ongoing violence and looting in parts of the country to a halt.
In a media statement on Thursday, Business Unity South Africa (BUSA) said that president Cyril Ramaphosa’s cabinet should:
- Allocate emergency funds for the call up of all army reservists nationally and police reservists in KwaZulu Natal and Gauteng.
- Declare a 24-hour curfew in KwaZulu Natal and Gauteng to allow order to be restored.
- Deploy all available security services to strictly enforce the 24-hour curfew and then existing curfews in terms of lockdown restrictions thereafter.
- Station security services to at-risk areas to monitor the situation, enforce law and order, and be prepared to remain in position until order is fully restored.
- Reverse the amendment to the Disaster Management Act allowing for gatherings by certain parties. Instead, a restriction on gatherings must be
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