President Cyril Ramaphosa has officially deployed members of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) to support the police throughout the 21-day national lockdown that will come into effect on midnight Thursday. He earlier announced that the country’s number of confirmed cases now stands at 927. This is 225 more[…]
President Cyril Ramaphosa has called for a national day of prayer on the eve of the 21-day national lockdown which is set to begin at midnight on Thursday. He has invited South Africans to observe two minutes of prayer, reflection or silent meditation on Thursday between 18:00 and 18:30. “These[…]
Weeks of rumours of a national lockdown was realized on Monday evening when President Cyril Ramaphosa delivered an assuring speech to South Africans. It came a week after he declared a National State of Disaster due to the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. In his address, a host of restrictions[…]
STATEMENT BY PRESIDENT CYRIL RAMAPHOSA ON ESCALATION OF MEASURES TO COMBAT COVID-19 EPIDEMIC UNION BUILDINGS, TSHWANE 23 MARCH 2020 My fellow South Africans, It is a week since we declared the coronavirus pandemic a national disaster and announced a package of extraordinary measures to combat this grave public health emergency.[…]
It seems a national shutdown has formed part of discussions between President Cyril Ramaphosa and smaller opposition parties. Several opposition leaders met with the president at the Union Buildings on Sunday, where they shared their views on the country’s battle against the novel coronavirus. The meeting came amid reports that[…]
With South Africa’s economy already feeling the pinch of the Covid-19 pandemic, President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced that government is on the verge of finalising a comprehensive package of interventions to mitigate the expected impact. The president announced this in an address to the nation on Sunday after he called[…]
President Cyril Ramaphosa has wished the military well in their mission to bring 122 South Africans back home from the coronavirus-hit Chinese city of Wuhan. An SANDF team has embarked on a flight from OR Tambo to Wuhan to bring the South Africans home. Ramaphosa and Health Minister Zweli Mhkize[…]
“I am shocked!” President Cyril Ramaphosa said in mock surprise as he entered a room filled with some of his staunchest critics – journalists – on Tuesday. The journalists laughed as he used the oft-derided phrase of his. The journalists had been waiting on the president for a few minutes[…]
President Cyril Ramaphosa says he will be engaging with police management about complaints that officers did not respond effectively in the 8-year-old Tazne Van Wyk murder case. Van Wyk’s body was found in a stormwater drain in Worcester last week. The President met with the family and parents of the[…]
The debate on President Cyril Ramaphosa’s State of the Nation Address (SONA) descended into a shouting match in the National Assembly after an ANC MP accused EFF leader Julius Malema of domestic violence. As Malema made his way to the podium, following Minister in the Presidency Jackson Mthembu, National Council[…]
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