President Cyril Ramaphosa is today visiting the community of Hammanskraal, north of Pretoria, following the cholera eruption, which has claimed at least 26 lives countrywide.
The President is accompanied by several Ministers and Deputy Ministers, including the Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (COGTA) Thembi Nkadimeng; the Minister of Health, Dr Joe Phaahla, and the Minister of Water and Sanitation, Senzo Mchunu.
Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufi and the Executive Mayor of the City of Tshwane, Cilliers Brink, also form fraction of the delegation.
“The eruption of cholera in the community of Hammanskraal has caused devastation, and the three spheres of government and their agencies and non-governmental organisations believe been seized with instituting mitigating measures to contain the spread of cholera,” President Ramaphosa said in a statement ahead of the visit.
President Ramaphosa will initiate the visit with a stopover at the Rooiwal Wastewater Treatment Plant. Following that, he will lead a delegation of government leaders to a community meeting in Hammanskraal.
President Ramaphosa will interact with the community on the measures government is implementing.
In the past weeks, President Ramaphosa has assured South Africans that government’s immediate priority is to finish the cholera eruption and ensure safe water for all.
The President further told the nation, through his weekly newsletter, that the recent eruption of cholera in Hammanskraal, Gauteng, and in the Free State and Mpumalanga has shown the importance of safe and effective water and wastewater management. – SAnews.gov.za
Mad Jack
The wonder of a man with a running stomach is that he knows the direction of the door without anybody’s guidance.
Sassy Muffin
An retired elderly couple visit London..
They get picked up from the airport in a london black cab and head off into the city for some adventure.
The cab driver say \”where you from guvnor?
Husband. \”we\’re from South Africa\”..
The wife is a little hard of hearing asks her husband.
\”What did he say?\”
The husband turns to his wife and says louder \”the cab driver asked us where we were from, I told him South Africa!\”
The cabbie continues \”I was in the merchant navy years back… I got to drop anchor down your way, a few times in Johannesburg\”
The husband replies \”oh wow that\’s where we\’re from originally, now we\’re in Cape Town.\”
The wife asks the husband again \”what did he say?\”.
The husband again relays the unheard conversation \”the cab driver says he spent some time in the navy and went down to joberg\”.
The wife smiles and nods.