Despite all the natural resources of diamonds and gold, the Republic South Africa is not a rich country. Actually rather poor. Still they try to compensate financially for all the workers that were sent home/laid off during the COVID-19 crisis. We’re talking about roughly 4 mio peeps here.
“Good president! Who’s a good president?” /me throws Cyrill some dog biscuits. 🙂
Apart from that will we go into full lockdown according to this:
Coronavirus: SA to go on lockdown
Monday, March 23, 2020In light of the Coronavirus pandemic, The National Coronavirus Command Council has decided to enforce a 21-day nation-wide lockdown with effect from midnight on Thursday, President Cyril Ramaphosa announced on Monday.
In a televised address to the nation, the President announced that the lockdown is necessary in order to save lives in light of the Coronavirus.
“This is a decisive measure to save millions of South Africans from infection and save the lives of hundreds of thousands of people. While this measure will have a considerable impact on people’s livelihoods, on the life of our society and on our economy, the human cost of delaying this action would be far, far greater,” said President Ramaphosa.
Under the lockdown, South Africans will be required to stay at home from midnight on Thursday 26 March2020, until midnight on Thursday 16 April 2020.
– SAnews.gov.za
Did you notice that Ramaphosa is the first black president to pronounce English so that most people can understand him? No wonder, he’s a businessman and, I guess, the first one not coming from a background of political struggle. 😉
