LFN v President of the Republic of South Africa et al (High Court, Gauteng Division, Pretoria — Case No. 2025-153522) – Initiated: 31 Augustus 2025 – Lodged: 2 September 2025
Last Updated: 4 September 2025 (Previous Version: 31 August 2025)
On 2 September 2025, Liberty Fighters Network (LFN) and its President, Reyno De Beer, lodged a constitutional challenge in the Gauteng Division of the High Court, Pretoria. The case seeks to stop the South African Government from secretly enforcing the World Health Organisation’s amended International Health Regulations (IHR), adopted on 1 June 2024, without Parliamentary approval or public participation.
LFN argues that the outdated International Health Regulations Act, 1974 unlawfully empowers the President or a Minister to publish international regulations by proclamation in the Government Gazette. This bypasses section 231 of the Constitution, which requires all binding treaties to be debated and approved by Parliament, as well as the public participation rights guaranteed in sections 59 and 72.
The application asks the Court to:
- Declare the IHR Act unconstitutional to the extent that it allows treaty amendments to become law without Parliament.
- Confirm that the amended IHR have no binding effect in South Africa unless explicitly ratified by Parliament.
- Interdict the President, Ministers, and Parliament from enforcing the IHR amendments until full constitutional processes are followed.
- Compel the President to disclose whether South Africa has accepted or rejected the IHR amendments, and what steps (if any) have been taken to introduce them into domestic law.
LFN stresses that the COVID-19 lockdown experience showed the dangers of executive overreach, secrecy, and coercive health measures. This case is about defending democracy, sovereignty, and the rights of the people before unelected international rules are imposed on South Africans without their consent.
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