Ramaphosa: Lives, economy my biggest challenge
President Cyril Ramaphosa says one of his biggest challenges at the moment is ensuring that everybody stays home and abides by the lockdown regulations.
Ramaphosa paid a visit to the COVID-19 Command Centre at Rand Water in Johannesburg on Tuesday afternoon.
Ramaphosa says the most important challenge remains the prevention of the spread of coronavirus.
"Our most important challenge is to get everybody to abide by the regulations that we have put out. That is my biggest challenge.
"But as part of that my biggest challenge is to stop the spread of the virus and getting the spread to level and not to spike and also to stop the death of those would succumb to the virus," he said.
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Ramaphosa says second priority is limiting the damage to the country’s economy.
"But if you care to know it is also ensuring that the economy of our country is in a position that it can sustain the lives of our people beyond the coronavirus.
"The economy is going to take a real knock and we will come with strategies on how we will re-engineer our economy and get it to move forward.”