PRESIDENT Cyril Ramaphosa is the unluckiest president since the dawn of South Africa’s democracy in 1994, confided one ANC activist recently during a brief chat the other day.
Just less two years into the highest job in land, in March 2020 South Africa, like most nations across the globe, effected Covid-19 lockdowns, added the activist.
For sure, this global pandemic by far was unprecedented, in the last millennia or so.
More businesses collapsed, job loss went up, death rate; and a variety of other factors that negatively befell the human species during this period.
True to form, South Africa turns to get a lot of the media attention, quite a dramatic country others would say.
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