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SA needs a bazooka to fight the virus. Cyril offered us a pea shooter

18 March 2020 - 08:00 By tony leon
Tony Leon Columnist
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President Cyril Ramaphosa.
President Cyril Ramaphosa.
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On Sunday, declaring a national “state of disaster”, Cyril Ramaphosa was at his best: equable, authoritative and reassuring. 

But against the greatest threat to our economy all we have are ideological fantasies.

 

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