'We are trying to instill a clear message to all our people that social distance is important. Let us stay at home. Let us not be going around with visitations. And if you have to, it must be work-related.'
FILE IMAGE: President Cril Ramaphosa watches Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams being sworn in as the new minister of communications at the Union Buildings in Pretoria.President Cyril Ramaphosa has summoned communication minister and NEC member Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams for a meeting after she was exposed violating the government-imposed lockdown by having lunch with a friend.
Speaking to the media after a visit to Rand Water on Tuesday, Ramaphosa said he had seen the picture of Ndabeni-Abrahams having lunch with former deputy minister Mduduzi Manana, also an ANC NEC member.
Ramaphosa said: “We are trying to instill a clear message to all our people that social distance is important. Let us stay at home. Let us not be going around with visitations. And if you have to, it must be work-related." ANC secretary-general Jessie Duarte has called out both the minister and Manana for their actions.
When approached for comment on Tuesday, Ndabeni-Abrahams' spokesperson Mish Molakeng toldSowetanLIVE's sister publication TimesLIVE that they were working on a response.on Tuesday, Manana said: “I think the minister must respond for herself because I was home and she was working nearby, so it was not dinner per se.”I will be writing to President
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