JOHANNESBURG – President Cyril Ramaphosa on Saturday said it was premature for South Africa to implement travel bans related to countries affected by the new coronavirus outbreak as the country had only two confirmed cases of the disease so far.
The president made the remarks while speaking to journalists in Pretoria on the sidelines of the ANC Women’s League inaugural presidential golf day to raise funds for gender-based violence campaigns. “In some ways, it was expected that having travelled together to Italy they would have contracted it. So, there is no reason to panic. The Department of Health is handling this extremely well. The minister reported to me immediately [the second confirmed case] and I think the isolation of the people does show that we are handling it as well as we could.
CyrilRamaphosa But it's never 'too early' to call in travel bans when the situation is this dire Mr President.We are panicking beyond anything and need some sort of reassuring intense measure from you as our President.Lesotho has banned travels, why can't you call for that to ease our fears😢
CyrilRamaphosa Can SA govt do something already? I'd rather that they overreact and keep us safe than do nothing and we suffer
CyrilRamaphosa This SA government is insane. Travel ban is important. Time for this useless government to ride off I to the shadows
CyrilRamaphosa Am not suprised,ANC like drama they cant control our local borders let alone the world,top countries closed borders.
CyrilRamaphosa Amazing how 1st world countries are cutting interest rates to stimulate economies during this panic selling on stock markets but South Africa is still pondering if potato & garlic may cure something eventually. We hoped you would put your country 1st
CyrilRamaphosa Thought Cyril was smart and proactive, I wonder how he became a successful business man
CyrilRamaphosa Do u think we could cope with the existing strain in the public sector. Your job is to protect us!
CyrilRamaphosa ANC voters.... do you see the work of your hands? Naze nasenza shame.
CyrilRamaphosa Mr President the disease has been declared by world head bodies as pandemic: So why wait for unkown time to ban our airlines as Trump, Italy n China did. Or do you have a target of SA people to die before you act. Seriously:Mr President
CyrilRamaphosa This nigga is useless
CyrilRamaphosa What's wrong with you can't you see it's a pandemic case already must we be flooded with it before you make a call for heaven sake
CyrilRamaphosa Better now than sorry Mr President
CyrilRamaphosa When the whole country will have been affected?🤷🏾♂️
CyrilRamaphosa Slima ngempela
CyrilRamaphosa He is waiting for us to die so that he can be shocked 😭😭😭
CyrilRamaphosa Its too early?, So all the other countries are wrong and we act correctly showing we truly care for our citizens.
CyrilRamaphosa For heaven’s sake, all countries are doing it, can’t you just do things early in time for freaking once in your life. Yerrrr!! PresidencyZA🤷♀️
CyrilRamaphosa Is this guy kidding? Wtf!!!!
So this guy want to see a dead body first and only be reactive than proactive
Is he waiting for people to die first?
CyrilRamaphosa Too early? What are we waiting for?
CyrilRamaphosa So people should die first before you impose the travel ban as well as huge gatherings. I now realise that the government doesn't care about our well being. We were even lied to regarding being ready to handle this pandemic.
Uzosibulala sonke lo
CyrilRamaphosa
CyrilRamaphosa This guy isn't serious Are we waiting for someone to die before we can take action? Our government 🚮
CyrilRamaphosa Yes Mr President. Let’s wait until it spreads uncontrollably then we try and control it right!
CyrilRamaphosa This is the weakest president we've ever had. NguMngqundu lo.
CyrilRamaphosa SA government virus strategy
CyrilRamaphosa Wow!!!
CyrilRamaphosa It was too early 4days ago also.
CyrilRamaphosa What you think and what must be done a two different things maneer!
This is a four days’ old article!!!! Seriously - up your game or stop contributing to fake news.
CyrilRamaphosa To early 😔this guy doesn't care about our lives
CyrilRamaphosa early bird catc..... argh, never mind, as you were....
CyrilRamaphosa CyrilRamaphosa you should be suspending travel from China & Europe period
CyrilRamaphosa ma faka he captured...Too early my S..we on 17 now and that shit gon hit 50 in a few.
CyrilRamaphosa Block ports of entries, no traveling across, free masks across the country at all health facilities, police stations, schools, etc.
CyrilRamaphosa Travel ban is needed now. Our lives are in danger here
CyrilRamaphosa Our president takes life easy 🙄🙄🙄🙄 some countries are busy burning tourists and he is acting as if we can handle it... What a joke 🙄
CyrilRamaphosa Someone must either fire Cyril's PR team or yena🚶🏽♂️
CyrilRamaphosa 17 cases Mr President. Do something.
Not too early but late already and virus in our midst already instead putting those under quarantine. Putting foot to South African soil. Now Government play safe tactics no need to panic while it is a panic state/matter which means innocent people must die too.tsk
sibs_xhosa Loves people dying this guy.
They firstly want to reduce the number of citizens, especially the poor ones, before they take Coronavirus seriously
Unbelievable yohh...too early! Wow your leaders!
Nxilile lo!!!!
He can't be serious this is very serious CoronaVirusSA covid19SA all flights should be banned
How can it be early for a preventive measure..... mxm
Can someone sneeze on Parliament or Luthuli house please
Clueless
CyrilRamaphosa PresidencyZA This is not a brilliant decision to take. People are going to die.
Not early yoo
How we deal with stuff. It happens. Then we get shocked. Then Commissions of Enquiry. Then Presidential Advisory Teams. Then Parliamentary Committees. 5-10 years later we are still analyzing/understanding the issue. In the process trust among citizens erodes.
How can this be, there is a world wide epidemic.
__Lebogang
what r u waiting for?
mara gabotse, do we have a president?
LevisLaKing Ramaphosa is one of those people who appears to be bright from far until they're close to you. At least I didn't vote for him
Phislash This guy 🙆🏾heyi futhi bakithi savelelwa Indaba ngalo mbhemu
This man only cares about money and his white investors
Wow. So citizens must die first.. we really are on our own here,theydon't care these people. 🤕
Kanti what happened to prevention is better than cure🤷🏿♀️
Let’s see what happens? Really? Wow. So having three cases in less than a month is a good sign right? Come on bruv just put South Africa first for once in your presidency..
What is he waiting for
Deputy De Klerk not enough people have died....
Ramaphosa is all about the dollar sign💰💲. Screw us!!
🙋... phambene mos lomfo?!
We must at least wait for 10 deaths-nyana. I mean, what's 10 deaths compared to more than 44 in Marikana? That's the president U voted for. He doesn't care about a single life in SA.
CyrilRamaphosa mustn't tell us next week that he is shocked and surprised at how the virus has spread so quickly. The man is a bloody fool. 16 million people are in quarantine in Italy. All people arriving from affected countries are automatically put into quarantine in Israel.
This guy though😭😭 prevention is better than... That's logic
Think of the opportunity. Ban all airline travel except SAA! And sommer keep it like that once Corona has passed... Your life has NEVER mattered to the ANC.
I really don’t understand this statement, so we first need fatalities before you take this serious 🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️
'Late us wait until we have an uncontrollable outbreak and then react. We shouldn't take proactive preventative measure.' - Ramaphosa
Mara die man 😂😣
Thabo Mbeki once said something about imigodoyi..I am afraid we are now on that path where we find ourselves following lead by imig...
Isa da fool....
When coming to health , i will say , ' rather safe than sorry ' , rather to early than late and then have to bury people
Ramaphosa must be banned!!!
Italy, Asia and some European countries have cancelled inbound and outbound travel but not in South Africa! Thus we want this epidemic to happen why? Cleansing the population
Mxm okay. Let's wait until half of our people are gone then close down. Our president has beeeen useless though. Mxm suka!!!
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂we are led.
This man is a fuckn clown🤡🤡
Our Gorvernment 😡😡😡
Phela ubanjwe ngaphansi, ayikho into angayenza
Lo baba uya sangana ekhanda mara
This president though?😭
We are leader-less
You do not need the government to tell you to not travel to countries like China and Italy... It is kinda logical.
Should we get infected we should all sue the government for its recklessness when it comes to Corona virus and putting the interest of the people first. We didn't even need a single case to start with, now it's to early to enforce travel bans when people 4rm Italy are flocking in
CyrilRamaphosa Grootman ka nko e kima otlore tena nou
Third Case
He vhone munna vhako Toda u ban travels aftr half of ppl ar infected?
😔😔😔😔😔😔
KCollenm1 Aibo! nang' umunt' efuna sife bo!
So we must first have a disaster before this fool acts
Vele we are doomed
Slima Lento Leh
This man doesn't care about South Africans
MuanoBlessing Ahh! this one we know he'll start acting all surprised when too many lives are lost!!! watch the space
10% of the population must get infected by tourists first before it happens right? Because our lives means that less. 🚮
This one is useless
You can tell this guy is not in control, he is ordered what to say, worst president ever
Who makes decisions for this President though. He simply refuses to lead.
😂🤣😂🤣😂 As I wonder, when will be late?
To early? Are you serious mr CyrilRamaphosa
Your family will die first😑
In other words, not enough people have died for us to put a stop to this pandemonium. His Pharmaceutical partners have cashed in yet.
Mr CyrilRamaphosa, do you honestly feel like this reassures your citizens? Do you want to see people die before you act? So are you putting money before our lives.
Your ramaphosa is dumbest thing we've had as a president 🤦♂️
More must be infected more
That means Travelers are very important than Ordinary South Africans
De spread of coronavirus wil b blamed on leaders like CyrilRamaphosa for not taking firm decisions. De 2 cases confirmed its just a tip of an iceberg. Are we suppose to first wait for thousand ppl to b infected first b4 taking strict measures?
Only two cases pple start panicking..no, this has bn long coming nd travel bans can’t just be issued this early..d situation just need monitoring nd personal care maintained..
Ezi virus fanba ziqala pha ku ba meli be lizwe, perhaps its then they'll cooperate 🏋️♂️🏋️♂️🏋️♂️✌️🤔
CyrilRamaphosa and his WMC serving government are running this country to the pits. I’m disappointed
Uzothi he was not aware the CoronaVirusSA Was here when the number increases
This guy though😳
This guy lacks foresight , re masepeng straight
Mara mlungu wo wa bora shame
Msunu situation
Ngathi ingamuphatha azophaphama kahle ngoba ulele
He's waiting for a few people to die, that's why he says it's too early, he just can't say it out loud.
Ngathi ingambamba le colona vilus anye
__ThatoM__
No. Italy should be immediate.
Too early? 😡👀
Cant wait for 2021 elections.... change of gorv
I don’t blame Ramaphosa for this irresponsible decision, he’s just in the same group with those South Africans who play jokes with CoronavirusInSA on twitter.
Banana republic
State of emergency already in place in 8 American states. Yet the same white is telling you to leave your people without protection and let them die while they protected theirs long before now. Africa ' WE ARE OUR OWN PROBLEMS '
Oh so 1000 infected people must come to SA first before that can happen
President Mabena
People must die 1st and we'll later deal with it... Wow
Too early? When is the right time? When people start falling dead on the streets?
Wouldn't a travel ban help SAA get it's sh*t together? A short break nyana to reorganize without trying to juggle everything at once...
Ja, let’s wait till people die 👎🏾
We're cursed to have a president like this one.
WTF? This President is truly a Satanist He would do anything for money & attaining $Bn status He is not stupid,He is just reckless with our lives( prop a instruct from Stellbonsch) They are hoping this virus will reduce Afrikan ppl population DEVILISH
Way Too early.... no one died yet. Let’s wait for ATLEAST 3500 people to die before we enforce travel ban 🙆🏽♀️🙆🏽♀️🙆🏽♀️ SAns, we are doomed
But we must at least ban those coming from hotspot continents such as Europe & Asia landing in SA. ..😷
This is the most useless president we've ever had as a country!!
This guy tho👀👀👀👀
It's really ok to shut your mouth sometimes...I mean we're used to him being silent vele
Lerete,how many people must be infected before you can take this thing serious?
Just close the borders man ... we can’t be in the township & have people going on vacations in Europe only for them to come and make us all sick ... come on
To early to safe lifes . Wow😹💔
What did we do to deserve this man😭😭😭
Capitalism profit comes first
Someone cough in his face please
Is this guy for real? With SAs disease burden and ailing healthcare systems, we are clearly led by the blind! He should fire his advisers, himself & min mkhize and allow infectious disease specialists to do their jobs
Le shapo mara inside your heads ?!
He is gambling with our lives this one
So he will enforce it when we start dying in numbers..... This guy is no good news xem......
Be proactive rather than reactive. You want to be fighting fires rather than preventing them in the first place 🙄
I believe that you are led by the real God.let them talk much.they will see who you where to them after they sabotaged you and took you away from the big sit.instead of improving our nation we dealing with personal issues.
Oh, you waiting for South Africa to start counting some bodies before you take those drastic steps Mr President?🙏
The 'P' for President is silent kulo baba yoh😟😟
This guy is confused
Stupid President, its better to be early than late,... 😭😠
I'm not sure about this statement😬
Ok then can somebody please organise this guy a business trip to China
Blunder after blunder after blunder! I'm shocked.
This guy Mara, implying that you have to lock the doors when the thieves are inside the house?
Waisti keng, votsek jo
Eh!!! THIS GUY🙆🏽♀️
Ngibuyiseleni eskhundle simple
As if there is a plan specifying at which point will te travel ban be effected. This man is lost.
President there's something wrong in ur head. Travel ban should have been enforced long time ago.
so it should be too late first?
Ay kunzima
This tweet will not age well...
Ur man
Seriously
africaupdates CyrilRamaphosa By the time you enforce it more than a million will be affected. And I know why you say this, you want something to apologise for.
Eyi lobaba nkosiyami 😢
CyrilRamaphosa mara why oleso😒 jrrrr
I really want to see what will happen once more infected people are found, what will he say then.
Mosoono Ramaputa mosoonao uyeva!!
Anyone who gets it must spit in his mouth do the right thing people
Hahaha le president isazos bonisa amabele enyoka
What this virus is doing is working well for the government its pushing people away from our OTHER ISSUES that they aren't dealing with. Happy happy virus
U useless lo baba noma ningathini he doesnt take us serious.
USELESS! USELESS! USELESS!!!
Usufun sifile neh🤔
Thats bcoz the white man stand to lose a lot of money akere ntate cr17
Yandonyanyisa lo tata
When is he going to behave like a president and make decisions to protect his citizens.
Haibo😳
Ngwana_Mobo Udakiwe, ukhomba ungabi nandaba nesizwe
WTF this guy ? 🤷🏾♂️
Uyinja uramaphosa
__Khona Ntate o banna!
Mxm
I guess it must take 100ds of people to get sick before it can be taken seriously. Some of us are already in a state of panic
Who ever donated to CR campaign should get their money back
10 million Africans needs to die as per gates predictions
I don't know what's more shocking, his incompetence or the fact that he's actually The president
Ntate CyrilRamaphosa what are you suffering from? Why let whites who are bringing Corona Virus to be your advisors?
I'm tempted to say fuck everyone who voted for this guy and the ANC
It's comming...
The lack of leadership within the SADC region is frightening.
Your country niquita_jones Kenylikiz in SA this thing will spread faster than a wild fire and here is homeboy saying kuwe early. Ulinde life 100 'bodies' Kuala coz to him we are just bodies mos.
Too early ne...shame Rama...
Remember, when corona gets out of hand here in south africa, we blame CyrilRamaphosa and the MYANC
😕This one has no backbone. South Africans we are dead.
Ahoembawe Absolutely correct.
So basically more people must be infected and a few deaths recorded then it will be time?!
Hey monna keng ka wena mare kapa o batla re ikoalle tsona?
This Son Of A Bitch Wants Us Dead.... Is He Really Serious
How many black must die before the travel ban is enforced?
Ai UM🔜 lendoda
Idiot!!!! CyrilRamaphosa
Lowkey feel like this oke wants to have a couple of us dead 😂
This one o dlala diketo ka maphelo a rona weitse...
I doubt there's anything that disappoints me about our president anymore. He has disappointed me numerously. Instead of putting the citizens' health on his priority list, he opts to delay implementing measures to protect the citizen. Matamela doesn't give a damn hey 😂
Mxm dae boy ke stlaela sa mokhalabye
This one le go rata makgowa o tla re bolaya
Mara die bra wahlanya?
Akamuncu
People must die first