Elections2019: Tough questions for CyrilRamaphosa at Germiston community meeting shanebrahim7
Johannesburg - President Cyril Ramaphosa’s engagement with white South Africans at a mass meeting in Johannesburg this week was so robust that he decided to stay two hours longer than scheduled to answer an array of pressing questions. This was one of the largest gatherings of this election campaign to date between the president and white South Africans, as hundreds gathered at the Hellenic Hall in Germiston.
Inside the packed hall were dignitaries such as advocate George Bizos, ANC stalwart Sophie de Bruyn, author Luli Callinicos, as well as six government ministers and premier David Makhura. Ramaphosa fielded an array of robust questions from the floor about the state of the economy, the need to end greed and abuse of power at our parastatals, and how to ensure job security given the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
One of the celebrated members of the HIP Alliance, human rights defender and environmentalist Catherine Constantinides, made an impassioned plea to the president to do more about violence against women and girls in the country, and highlighted the need for more women in leadership roles, particularly in the business community.
Ramaphosa praised Constantinides for her activism on women’s issues and efforts to raise awareness of the plight of the Saharawi people.
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