President Cyril Ramaphosa is expected to announce the extension of the lockdown by 14 days this evening, The Citizen was reliably informed on Thursday evening.
This emerged after the president held a teleconference with leaders of political parties at 4pm on Thursday afternoon.
A reliable source who was party to the teleconference with the president said the political parties agreed for the lockdown to be extended. There was a general consensus about this, and some parties even suggested that certain lockdown regulations needed to be strengthened.
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