{"id":506752,"date":"2021-07-16T17:15:01","date_gmt":"2021-07-16T15:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=506752"},"modified":"2021-07-16T17:15:01","modified_gmt":"2021-07-16T15:15:01","slug":"ramaphosa-to-address-south-africa-on-friday-evening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/506752\/ramaphosa-to-address-south-africa-on-friday-evening\/","title":{"rendered":"Ramaphosa to address South Africa on Friday evening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Cyril Ramaphosa will address the nation on Friday evening (16 July) about the violent protests and looting which took place in Gauteng and KwaZulu Natal this week.<\/p>\n<p>In a media briefing on Friday afternoon, acting minister in the presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni said that the briefing will take place at 20h30.<\/p>\n<p>The address comes after Ramaphosa made an oversight visit to eThekwini in KwaZulu-Natal to survey the damage in the province and observe the deployment of SAPS, and SANDF security forces.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Acting Minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni gives an update on Public Violence <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Yx9OBbX2x3\">https:\/\/t.co\/Yx9OBbX2x3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 South African Government (@GovernmentZA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GovernmentZA\/status\/1416040265077383168?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 16, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In the seven days of the unrest, 95 people lost their lives. Beyond this, billions of rands of damage were inflicted on the KZN economy when businesses and infrastructure were looted and razed in fires, the president said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople are now going to go forward having lost jobs and the economic damage that has been done,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe country\u2019s image as an economic destination had been severely dented, not just to local investors but also to external investors. \u201cWe\u2019ve really been taken backwards on our path to economic recovery.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ramaphosa said that the government could also have done better in managing its response to the protests.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPrimary in the minds of the Minister of Police and commanders was to save lives, to make sure that we did not get into a situation which could have resulted in more mayhem,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe regret that the situation has resulted in this. This is not what we want to see in our country.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/506626\/3-lockdown-scenarios-for-south-africa-and-where-things-are-heading-right-now\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">3 lockdown scenarios for South Africa \u2013 and where things are heading right now<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Cyril Ramaphosa will address the nation on Friday evening (16 July), about the violent protests and looting which took place in Gauteng and KwaZulu Natal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":460478,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-506752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506752"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":506760,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506752\/revisions\/506760"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}