While governments around the world have been focussing their efforts on the procurement and rollout of a vaccine to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, President Ramaphosa’s government has failed South Africa by devoting its time and resources to implementing and policing lockdowns without prioritising vaccine procurement.
While governments around the world have been focussing their efforts on the procurement and rollout of a vaccine to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, President Ramaphosa’s government has failed South Africa by devoting its time and resources to implementing and policing lockdowns without prioritising vaccine procurement.
It is disgraceful that people who are tasked with the welfare of the most economically vulnerable among us can take leave without having ensured that contingency plans are in place so that these types of unjustifiable wrongdoings do not occur.
Tomorrow marks the last day of 2020. I look forward to 2021 in the hope that it will see us emerge from this pandemic. This will only be possible if we both play our parts. I reiterate my commitment, and that of ActionSA, to doing better. I hope for our collective good that you will do the same. If not, let the voters have the final word.
The following remarks were delivered by Herman Mashaba, President of ActionSA, at the funeral of the Late Dr. Ngoako David Thebehali.
Our focus now proceeds to initiating a full High Court legal review of the Public Protector’s report and to seek a cost order against the Public Protector or her office in this matter. Our legal team has been instructed to provide notice to the Office of the Public Protector of our intention to review the report.
