THE CONSTITUTIONAL Court on Friday dismissed with costs an application by Mmusi Maimane’s One South Africa Movement party to stop the reopening of schools on Monday. In an order made on Friday, the Constitutional Court said it had considered the application for direct access to the court on an urgent basis.
“It has concluded that [One South Africa Movement] has not made out a case for direct access and thus the application should be dismissed as it is not in the interests of justice to hear it at this stage,” the ConCourt said.
In an urgent application to the Concourt, Maimane’s party challenged the government’s decision to reopen schools on June 8, citing poor infrastructure, school overcrowding, staff shortages and sanitation as some of the reasons not to reopen schools.
Reacting to the court verdict on Friday, Maimane said: “It must be clear that the Concourt did not consider the
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