The EFF leader reckons Ramaphosa is 'manipulating' SA's COVID-19 numbers. The EFF have called for an immediate independent scientific review of COVID-19 figures, as Julius Malema addressed the party’s followers on Sunday.
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| EFF Julius Malema |
The political firebrand, celebrating the Red Berets’ seventh birthday, has made the extraordinary claim that the government have ‘under-reported’ the COVID-19 figures.
South Africa has the fifth-highest amount of cases in the world, but deaths are relatively low in comparison. President Ramaphosa has used the mortality rate of this country – just under 1.5% – as a silver lining to the horrors of corona-virus, as it is three times smaller than the global average. Julius Malema, however, believes the numbers have been cooked – dragging both the government and Western Cape into a war of words:
“We wish to caution the country not to be hypnotized by Ramaphosa’s claims that South Africa has one of the world’s lowest mortality rates as a result of COVID-19. The South African Medical Research Council has reported a 59% increase in mortalities recorded as natural deaths in South Africa during this period.”
“There’s been an under-recording of COVID-19 deaths. This is not difficult to believe considering the recording of COVID-19 data is being handled by politicians. figures are being manipulated by National Govt and the Western Cape Govt. to give the impression that the South African government is doing a good job.”
The EFF leader also had some pretty feisty opinions on the closure of schools. All classroom activity will be suspended next week, but Julius Malema says the head of state is merely ‘putting on a show’:
“Ramaphosa closes schools as a publicity stunt, based on fear instead of science. Typical of him, and his lack of being able to assess the behavior of this pandemic, he chose to close schools for three weeks, and one week for matriculates, without any evidence that there’ll be a decrease in cases and deaths by that time.”
“Ramaphosa’s government has not used the opportunity provided by the lock-down to distribute digital learning materials to public schools, and develop adequate infrastructure and this must prove to us that this government no longer has the capacity to lead this country.”
South Africa has the fifth-highest amount of cases in the world, but deaths are relatively low in comparison. President Ramaphosa has used the mortality rate of this country – just under 1.5% – as a silver lining to the horrors of corona-virus, as it is three times smaller than the global average. Julius Malema, however, believes the numbers have been cooked – dragging both the government and Western Cape into a war of words:
“We wish to caution the country not to be hypnotized by Ramaphosa’s claims that South Africa has one of the world’s lowest mortality rates as a result of COVID-19. The South African Medical Research Council has reported a 59% increase in mortalities recorded as natural deaths in South Africa during this period.”
“There’s been an under-recording of COVID-19 deaths. This is not difficult to believe considering the recording of COVID-19 data is being handled by politicians. figures are being manipulated by National Govt and the Western Cape Govt. to give the impression that the South African government is doing a good job.”
The EFF leader also had some pretty feisty opinions on the closure of schools. All classroom activity will be suspended next week, but Julius Malema says the head of state is merely ‘putting on a show’:
“Ramaphosa closes schools as a publicity stunt, based on fear instead of science. Typical of him, and his lack of being able to assess the behavior of this pandemic, he chose to close schools for three weeks, and one week for matriculates, without any evidence that there’ll be a decrease in cases and deaths by that time.”
“Ramaphosa’s government has not used the opportunity provided by the lock-down to distribute digital learning materials to public schools, and develop adequate infrastructure and this must prove to us that this government no longer has the capacity to lead this country.”
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