President Cyril Ramaphosa stuck on train for three hours
Updated | By Scenic Drive With Rian
President Cyril Ramaphosa is again in the news, and this time because he was stuck in a train to Pretoria.
A train from Mabopane train station to Pretoria CBD (Bosman Station) has been delayed. The train was carrying President Cyril Ramaphosa, a few ANC officials, and the ANC’s head of elections, Fikile Mbalula, who were campaigning for the party on Monday morning.
The train was packed with commuters, and Ramaphosa realised that this is the reality many people must face everyday.
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President Ramaphosa said: "This is very bad." Some of the commuters, who had been on the train for almost three hours on a journey that was expected to have only taken 45 minutes. After the delay, commuters began jumping off the train in an effort to get to their destinations on time.
The videos of Cyril in the train went viral.
#ANC Singing and dancing ahead of the President’s arrival. pic.twitter.com/uWXDcsdb4M
— Jacaranda News (@JacaNews) March 18, 2019
President @CyrilRamaphosa takes a Metro- rail train from Soshanguve to Pretoria #GrowSouthAfrica #Thuma pic.twitter.com/Bn1sPLk5Sc
— #GrowSouthAfrica (@MYANC) March 18, 2019
EARLIER: President @CyrilRamaphosa speaks to the metro- rail train conductor #GrowSouthAfrica #Thuma pic.twitter.com/n2Oh2QhluA
— #GrowSouthAfrica (@MYANC) March 18, 2019
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