President Cyril Ramaphosa will resolve the country on Friday night (16 July) about the violent demonstrations and robbery which occurred in Gauteng and KwaZulu Natal today.

In a media instruction on Friday afternoon, acting minister in the presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni stated that the instruction will occur at 20h30.

The address follows Ramaphosa made an oversight see to eThekwini in KwaZulu-Natal to survey the damage in the province and observe the release of SAPS, and SANDF security forces.

In the 7 days of the discontent, 95 individuals lost their lives. Beyond this, billions of rands of damage were caused on the KZN economy when companies and facilities were robbed and taken down in fires, the president stated.

” People are now going to move forward having actually lost tasks and the financial damage that has actually been done,” he stated.

” The nation’s image as a financial location had actually been seriously dented, not simply to regional financiers however likewise to external financiers. “We’ve actually been taken in reverse on our course to financial healing.”

Ramaphosa stated that the federal government might likewise have actually done much better in handling its reaction to the demonstrations.

” Primary in the minds of the Minister of Police and leaders was to conserve lives, to ensure that we did not enter into a scenario which might have led to more chaos,” he stated.

” We are sorry for that the scenario has actually led to this. This is not what we wish to see in our nation.”