THEBE MABANGA
AS SOUTH AFRICA moves to Level 3 after 65 days in a national lockdown, President Cyril Ramaphosa used an address to editors to prepare South Africa to face the coming COVID-19 storm but also outline a new economic reality.
Ramaphosa used an address to the South African National Editors Forum (SANEF) to retrace the steps government has taken even before the identification of the first case in early March and to point to the tough and probably grim road that lies ahead.
“The Coronavirus pandemic has not only presented us with enormous challenges. It has also created several opportunities on which we must capitalise,” said Ramaphosa.
“One of the opportunities it has presented is to turn public health infrastructure into a genesis for the National health Insurance (NHI) as every person has who requires it has been tested and those found to be positive will be treated
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