CYRIL RAMAPHOSA
ELEVEN months ago, when we declared a national state of disaster in response to the coronavirus pandemic, I said to the people of South Africa that we shall overcome. I said, like I did last week, that we will rise. This is inevitable because of the strength and resilience of the South African people.
Yesterday this great and hopeful nation, devastated by a deadly pandemic, lifted its head, straightened its back and welcomed a new era in our fight against the pandemic.
Less than 24 hours after the shipment landed, the first COVID-19 vaccine was administered in our country.
Our vaccination programme, our best defence against this pandemic, has begun.
This has happened not in a month, not in two months, but now, in mid-February, just as we said it would.
Some said we couldn’t do it.
They said we have neither the ability nor the will to
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