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In his weekly bulletin published Monday morning, the president bragged about what the government had done to alleviate the financial impact of the shutdown through social grants and financial support for businesses.
FILE: President Cyril Ramaphosa. Image: @ PresidencyZA / Twitter
JOHANNESBURG – President Cyril Ramaphosa said that the emergency measures that South Africa had implemented at the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak had laid a firm foundation for the economy to recover as the country shifted its priority to stimulating growth and creating jobs. .
In his weekly newsletter published Monday morning, the president bragged about what the government had done to ease the financial impact of the shutdown through social grants and financial support for businesses.
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Yet eight months after declaring a state of disaster, the president said that now was the time for the country to work to rebuild the ailing economy.
President Ramaphosa said the start of a new season should fill the country with optimism, but said it was not so easy for the families of the nearly 20,000 people who died after contracting COVID-19 and the millions who had taken it. really. financial hits this year.
Ramaphosa said the emergency measures put in place by the government went a long way in protecting communities from the pandemic and believed that the additional grants helped prevent millions of people from falling below the poverty line.
The president said the country is now in a period of transition, on the road to recovery.
He said that there were funding commitments for infrastructure development and that several employment programs were being implemented.
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