South Africa, its state of disaster made official, is to have a minister of electricity in the presidency whose job is to end load-shedding. This was the news the nation was waiting for on Thursday night, and the moment President Cyril Ramaphosa announced the state of disaster during his State of the Nation Address (Sona), his audience in the Cape Town City Hall cheered.
President Cyril Ramaphosa says the parents of 21 teenagers who died in the Enyobeni tavern tragedy are not to be blamed but rather those profiteering from selling alcohol to young people.
thank you, kamala. thank you, thank you, thank you. the first really smart decision i made this administration. my name is joe biden. please sit down. i m jill s husband. and naomi biden s grandfather. and folks, now yesterday this is not only a sunny day. i mean this from the bottom of my heart. this is going to let so much sun shine on so many young women. so many young black women. so many minorities. that it s real. it s real! we re going to look back and nothing to do with me. we re going to look back and see this as a moment of real change in american history. i was on the phone this morning, jesse, with president ramaposa of south africa and talking about how the time that i was so outspoken about what was going
be effective in preventing the spread of this variant. it will just further damage the economies of the affected countries and undermine the ability to respond to and also to recover from the pandemic. if you look where the pandemic is in south africa compared to the u.s., uk, and other regions, you kind of sympathize with ramaposa. cases are rising fast in south africa but he hasn t put in any new restrictions but is considering vaccine mandates in this country. jim? and are countries listening to the south african president or the world health organization? what s the response to what the president of south africa is saying so far? no, they re not listening. and, in fact, despite the talk of solidarity amongst african nations, rwanda, angola, morocco