President Cyril Ramaphosa on Monday used his weekly newsletter to assess government's contribution to help society navigate the devastating pandemic almost a year after the first case was detected in South Africa.
Our experience in the procurement of essential supplies and services during the national state of disaster is disgraceful, writes Cyril Ramphosa.
President Cyril Ramaphosa said that all South Africans need to work together to build confidence in the COVID-19 vaccine, to demonstrate its effectiveness and its safety – and to emphasise its vital importance in overcoming the disease.
Three key Bills relating to gender-based violence have been introduced in Parliament that honours the promise made to protesters and women, writes Cyril Ramaphosa.
President Cyril Ramaphosa says that to build a more capable state, government has to seriously and urgently address the shortcomings in the organisation and the capacity of the public service.
President Cyril Ramaphosa says that while South Africa has achieved much in the 26 years since the country's first democratic elections in 1994, poverty and inequality continue to stalk our land and that the COVID-19 lockdown has forced us to confront this reality.
President Cyril Ramaphosa says that the lockdown has revealed a very sad fault line in our society that reveals how grinding poverty, inequality and unemployment is tearing the fabric of our communities apart.
Ramaphosa used his weekly letter on Monday morning to send a stern warning to criminals taking advantage of the COVID-19 lockdown, highlighting GBV and destruction of infrastructure.
President Cyril Ramaphosa says that the coronavirus pandemic has served as a stark reminder that in our interconnected world, no country and no nation exists for and of itself but that African countries are working together to contain the spread of the virus.
President Cyril Ramaphosa says that the experience of the South Africans in Wuhan demonstrates the effectiveness – and the necessity – of a state of lockdown.
With the public hearings on the National Health Insurance Bill drawing to a close, President Cyril Ramaphosa has appealed to South Africans to get behind the initiative, saying it is in their interest that universal healthcare becomes a reality.
President Cyril Ramaphosa urges South Africans to look back at the release of Nelson Mandela and unity that it culminated in with the country's first democratic elections and to apply those lessons to the challenges facing South Africa today.
President Cyril Ramaphosa hopes to achieve many things during South Africa's chairship of the African Union, with the economic empowerment of the continent's women a top priority.
President Cyril Ramaphosa says true reconciliation is not only about social cohesion. It is also about political and economic transformation.
Cyril Ramaphosa says the time is right for a new era of intra-African trade, where African countries no longer look abroad for the products and services they need, but to other countries on this continent.
President Cyril Ramaphosa has launched a weekly newsletter that will serve as an update on all matters that affect South Africa.
In the first weekly message ‘From the Desk of the President’, Cyril Ramaphosa says much of the confidence that the country had 20 months ago has dissipated as the reality of the problems we face became clearer.
