Pretoria, April 15, 2020.- The world is facing an unprecedented test, a health emergency far graver than what we have experienced in over a century.
Our human family is stressed and the social fabric is being torn by the COV-19. Millions of people are suffering, sick and scared. Entire countries and cities are in lockdown. Borders are closing. Societies are in turmoil. A global economic recession of record dimensions is a near certainty.
THE AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS (ANC) REACHES OUT IN SOLIDARITY TO OUR FELLOW LIBERATION MOVEMENTS, AND THE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD, IN OUR WORLD-WIDE EFFORT TO OVERCOME THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC
Date: Sunday, 5 April 2020
The African National Congress (ANC) extends our warm fraternal greetings to all the people of the world, the vast majority of whom are poor, during this challenging time where the daily burdens and challenges of our lives are made manifold more difficult by the coronavirus pandemic.