I took a walk through Instagram today, to get an idea of what the top ten chefs and restaurants of the World’s 50 Best Restaurants List are dong right now, many are lucky enough to be getting ready to open up for service again, while others remain closed for sit-down Service, and are cooking for their communities.
The World’s 50 Best Restaurant awards will not be held in 2020, having been scheduled to take place in Antwerp last week. The awards have been postponed to 2021. In our country Eat Out has announced that it too will postpone its Award ceremony.
As a writer following the Covid-19 pandemic and its rampant disastrous effect on Tourism and the Restaurant industries, I have been surprised to read an increasing number of articles predicting the opening up of our country to international tourism by September 2020, in a month that is Tourism Month, and traditionally the beginning of the South African summer and therefore Tourist season. The articles stem from a media release by the Tourism Business Council of South Africa, and appears confident in its prediction, based on its lobbying with Government, an interaction which was scheduled for yesterday 9 June. No outcome of this interaction has been seen yet. Earlier predictions were that the country would only reopen to international tourists in February 2021. 
What a surprise to read this evening that Judge Norman Davis has declared the Levels 3 and 4 Lockdown regulations as unconstitutional and invalid, and has given the Government 14 days to make changes to the regulations, News 24 reported this afternoon. The current Level 3 Lockdown regulations remain in force in this period of revision. 
Following the latest address to the nation by President Ramaphosa on Tuesday evening, the citizens of the Western Cape, and of Cape Town specifically, have become very anxious, speculating that our province and/our city will stay at Level 4 and not move to Level 3 at the end of this month, given an area-led Level dictate by the Government, based on a Corona Virus case count relative to the population of the area.