MISSION CONTROL

THE name has a definite ring to it. For some South Africans, the National Coronavirus Command Council (NCCC) conjures up reassuring images of South Africa’s leaders sitting around a table, trying to come up with a strategy to wage war on the virus.

Yet others are agitated that a handful of people have so much power to make decisions as the coronavirus crisis rages on.

Everything from the rules of lockdown and how they’ll be enforced is decided by the NCCC and it’s a body powerful enough to sway President Cyril Ramaphosa, as it did after he announced tobacco would be sold during lockdown level 4.

So who exactly is on