President Cyril Ramaphosa engages Sanef on COVID-19

President Cyril Ramaphosa will engage will the South African National Editors’ Forum on Sunday. Ramaphosa will speak to the media as South Africa battles the COVID-19 pandemic. Divine intervention: SA observes National Day of Prayer amid COVID-19

The virtual meeting with a representative Sanef delegation will afford Ramaphosa an opportunity to engage editors as thought leaders on South Africa’s ongoing measures to manage the spread of the COVID-19 through the risk-adjusted strategy.

The president has held a series of meetings and consultations with various sectors of society since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic to ensure that the national effort to combat the crisis is inclusive.

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In other news – A leaked document seems to suggest that the ANC plan to ‘revive’ the economy using pension funds

Political opponents have already sounded a warning to government and citizens alike on Sunday, after reports of an ANC ploy to strategically target public pensions went public this weekend.

The document, which was allegedly leaked to Business Live, proposes amending regulation 28 of the Pension Funds Act “to increase access [to] the savings of South Africans to fund long-term infrastructure capital projects”. That would target the collective pension funds of workers across the country. Read more

Source: eNCA