“I would like to see the state of disaster ending as soon as possible, but the science tells us otherwise and that is why we still have a state of disaster,” said Ramaphosa.
President Cyril Ramaphosa gave his stance on hot topics such as the state of the ANC, the possibility of vaccine mandates and the end of lockdown whilst giving a rare press conference at Luthuli House on September 29 2021.
In his capacity as the president of the ruling party, he took questions on various issues including when the government would be lifting the national state of disaster, put in place in March 2020. “And what if tomorrow I announced that the national state of disaster ended, and then another wave cometh and then we have got to go back to another state of disaster again. So we have reduced and lightened the restrictions on the state of disaster to enable the economy to go back to where it was pre-Covid and, to a large extent, I think that is now beginning to happen.”
He said, like other countries, the government was discussing making vaccinations mandatory. “It is a debate, as we all know, that is happening throughout the country as well. It is global and happening in various parts of the world and so we are becoming part of this process and we are also mindful of what the constitution says about the rights that our people have.”
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