Steenhuisen says the country’s economy could barely withstand the initial three weeks and the extension had come at a cost to millions while there was very little to show for it in return.
The DA leader said there was “no rational justification” to extend the lockdown beyond the initial three weeks which “caused irreparable damage to the country’s economy”. Steenhuisen said the country’s economy could barely withstand the initial three weeks and the extension had come at a cost to millions while there was very little to show for it in return.
“Their part of the so-called social compact President Ramaphosa speaks of, but the other end of this deal never materialised. Government didn’t use the past five weeks to ready itself for the wave of infections and it didn’t use the time to find and help those South Africans most in need,” he added. “So while the DA welcomes this move to alert Level 3, we must stress that it comes far too late for millions of South Africans who have already paid heavily for government’s dithering. And why should this only come into effect a week from now?
“We call on President Ramaphosa to provide us with the scientific justification for the continuation of this ban, which is costing our country hundreds of millions of Rands in missed tax revenue.
ronniedog2 This matriculant is still given a platform to utter nonsense
Do we really care what Steenhuizen says?!
What is John actually trying to achieve here. I know times are tough but It's obviously not for everyone's greater good. Dude is probably crying about the million his friends are loosing in the WC while his province is liable for the most covid 19 cases and deaths in SA.
True! Gonna throw my vote to DA
The DA have fought against ngo's and their councillors being stopped from helping the starving and won. They work for ALL South Africans!
Wht ever this guy is smoking or taking plz take him to rehab
There we go again... A blind mouse
How paranoid is this leader if he qualifies to be called one, to be calling the suspension of all measures of curbing this pandemic,history will definitely judge him harshly.
One minute they're claiming to be fighting for the poor, the next they're advocating for a lower minimum wage and looking to block plans for universal healthcare and the redistribution of wealth.
He is ready for Grade 7
Can u imagine a psycho grade 8 judas telling president what to do😂😂😂😂😂😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄
🤷♀️🤔 President Cyril Ramaphosa has filed a notice with the Constitutional Court, opposing the DA's challenge of the Disaster Management
Ai futsek!
He cannot stop according to your needs you are not alone think about others.
Western Cape has 65% of infections in SA. Cape Town alone has 54% of all infections. MatricSteenhuisen
He is a mouth piece of white businesses that fund DA. They want to get back to full operation ASAP. Please forgive the young man, it's not him.
Oh just up
Imagine a whole entire state President taking instructions from that rat and his “shadow ministers”💀 The DA is a zoo
If Our_DA knows something about this COVID-19, why don't just tell the truth! The way steenhuisen is backing, you can tell he knows something
Does he have sense at all?
To avoid enemies, say nothing; to avoid critics, do nothing; to avoid haters, be nothing; but to avoid mediocrity, ignore all.
He should speak on behalf of his people not us. He doesn't know what to do this mapimpana😂
Thank you Our_DA for defending the public constantly - even if CyrilRamaphosa doesn't seem to hear or care about the opposition 🙏🏼
gerda_morrison Posting here is of no help. Why are you not in court with an urgent application?
I think it ended a while back it's just a waste of time
Back to 100% normal. If you want to hide and wear a mask do so but the rest of us want to live, work and live our lives.
He’s irritating us now this one
Steenhuis should just.........
Fuck Steehuisen! How long did it take for his forefathers to end apartheid?
Yes why must we wait? Virus going nowhere
Who decides? Who is the President? Separation of Powers. Opposition has its powers too. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Bam’thathephi lo🤨?
Leadership has spoken let's comply please
So that all provinces can look like WC and it covers your failures
Bra John want to be in control. He must go to UCT for short programs. Eg project management.
The da has been irrelevant throughout thr lockdown and have since been seeking relevance by saying lockdown should end. It shows how irrelevant they are as a party!
Wayekutshelile ePhalamende uMongameli ukuthi thula ulalele
This one o tsuba dipatje tsa ko cape flats🤞🤣
Is John taking or on something?Just from this picture he seems so highly strung. Whats up with that!
And you are?
Lol all these people from the 35% era giving a real intelectual guy greef 🤣🤣🤣 IQ isnt measured by a degree but it may be to complicated for you to understand. Get real cause you are acting like real mamparas.
He is going through something beyond the lockdown...
lool
Bo steenhuisen ba do Gafa grand shap!
Our economy cannot recover. Unless: we can vote the useless and corrupt ANC our of power...or we can abolish BEE and have a free economic policy. 26 years of disaster tells us that there is no alternative.
DA acting leader trying to act relevant .
Someone said Steenhuisen is intellectually far better than NDZ?
Help sort out Cape Town with Covid -19.So u happy what happing in W/C. That’s why Musi call you Judas. Seems u have no respect for human life. One moment you with the government wink of an eye you not. Help Premier Winde before you utter nonsense.
His wine cabinet is empty
Shows how shallow he is this Steenbuisen. Which other country has abruptly ended lockdown from level 4 to 1?
What now Johnny o kare o tlo re tlapela bjanong doing too much it aint funny.
CR can't stop it, even if he wants. NDZ is the leader.
Im not this dude's fan by what he's say is true. Viva EFF viva
This Steenhuisen persona, is intoxicated
This idiot
I fully concur...100%! Back to level 0!
Due to your stupidity sir we won't vote for DA again how can you challenge the gvt to put our lives at risk lockdown this and that who is going to work wen we die of covid-19 leave Ramaphosa and his cabinet alone 1st deal with the western Cape then we will talk
This One it's Crazy. I don't know how to explain him anymore.
Send him to high school please🙄🙄
THAT'S TYPICAL OF A MATRIC FAREWELL GRADUATE🤦🏽♂️ Every time Steenhuizen speaks he exposes his lever of education; or non-education for that matter. How can the President ends a lockdown abruptly? Does he comprehend the quagmire that the country would be in?
Udom ke lo mlungu nkosi yam 🙆♂️
How about demanding Mandatory Isolation of cases and quarantine of contacts to improve containment in WC.
U r lost
Today I watched one business close.. This lockdown hit them hard, its sad. I agree with Steenhuisen.
If half of the people commented here knew how to deal with infections disease, they wouldn't be saying what they are saying.
I hate this guy
Don’t smoke weed and involve us Steenhuisen.
Who the fuck does he think he is this minion rubbish man🚮. This idiot is going to force me back to voting just to make sure he gets zero chances of leading this cowntri 🙄
This one wants the black majority to die.
Can you spell ABET?
He must register for matekul'etsheni that swine ayekele ukucabanga ukuthi uyiboss
Tsek
Steenhuisen should focus on the hotspots in Western Cape first before those places go back to level 4 or 5
Young man must go back to school
Who died and left this one in charge?
Who is this guy?
DA with rotten politics
Why are giving this guy attention?
6.9 stuff
Hey wena jsteenhuisen uyanya...
He must shut up sometimes.
He must go and finish school this one jsteenhuisen
Heybann Pres Ramaphosa must end lockdown today not next week for what DA says a white man is SA who run out of school with lot of privileges in front of him from early childhood Our_DA
Seems like Ramaphosa leadership style has brought back that arrogance this guy.
ANCmustFall ANCmustFall ANCmustFall ANCmustFall ANCmustFall ANCmustFall ANCmustFall ANCmustFall ANCmustFall
No clarity on the real estate industry. Can we fully open? Is it only commercial sector that can open fully? What about residential sector? Agencies want to move full steam ahead on 01 June 2020. Is this allowed? We need urgent clarity to avoid fines please.
Ever since we knew about your qualifications, whatever you say is considered irrelevant.
A matric drop out. Domkop
KatStrombeck Do you know that humanity survived the dark ages, but there won't be any economy to save when 3 million South Africans have the virus, death rate is high, diplomatic relations with other countries will fall
KatStrombeck I am glad Mmusi Maimane left in time, He was the one who was supposed to be pushing this agenda now. It does't require a scientist to know that our hospitals will not cope with the cases if the disease spread and millions of South Africans catch it
Just let it go
Or what? 🙄🙄🙄
I don't take him seriously
SA want ur matric qualifications today not tomorrow
jsteenhuisen (Judas), do you think any reasoning person, let alone a president of a country would take you seriously. U say it is too late for gov to move to stage 3 since if this was done earlier, gov would have save lives, u must be very sick stupid
I thought Malema/Ndlozi liked attention. They come nowhere close to this guy. He’s an epitome of an attention seeker.
This guy used to be my favorite but things changed, he is no longer a politician I used to know. He works against us not with us
Why do u call for things that you know are not going to happen? Making noise for the sake of making noise without nothing to gain.. u dom maan
So he thinks he’s the president this bad campaigner. Relax mlungu the president is in charge. Luister asseblief amd know place
John is dreaming
Fake news, Steenhuisen did not say 'end the lockdown.'
Always stating the obvious
President's Summary: Let the best immune system win. I know its in your hands, Open Schools, Open Mines & Allow sales of liquor. Keep National Assembly Closed. I wanna see something. Makunyiwe once.
What do we call a person who knows what he's demanding won't happen but keeps demanding it.. 🤣🤣🤣
I hope he will finally shut up from next week
Hai mara lwena Judas. Be patient. He said next week
Who the hell does this man think he is, honestly. This is getting too pathetic, even for him.
Steenhuisen ziyavulwa izikoli next week ungalibali usasityala
Why will he want to do that? the ANC is after the DA controlled Western Cape we all know that,they will get it not by hook or crook BUT ONLY BY CROOK.Just think how much money people are making with this cigarette ban.
Ag Shem, this guy pretending to be grown up. How cute... Not!
He can end it at his house
The DA want to be a cheerleader of Cyril and Steenhuisen will even wear a mini skirt, Than Steenhuisen want to wear a Long trouser and be opposition to ANC, Strange
John must voetsek
Sadly Twitter has become a sad mess. When bots and sub 30% have an equal platform to display their ignorance. If you think repeatedly mentioning the same tired lines about Steenhuisen’s education is relevant read my first line. And then those pathetic memes. Sad fuckwits
EndCovidScamNow endlockdownsa
His bark is louder than his bite
Steebhuisen must ....... .. Because u don't have
Who is this Wally?
CyrilRamaphosa will not be told what to do by a privileged white boy, a matriculant nogal
You see the problem of running away at school in break time
This one is beginning to be a nuisance
John is disillusioned. He thinks he's the reason the country was lowered to level 3. Now he's got the confidence of a cat seeing birds. Why doesn't he go to court as usual to collect costs order?
Can you please go back to school nyani
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I think if it were up to him alone, he would. But I think you know it isn't.
What is this boy smoking?
Makes sense, why wait and open everything on the 1st
Dude needs to go back and report that “I told him (CyrilRamaphosa) to end the lockDownSouthAfrica. His bosses want feedback.
🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣
Whole fucken year is wasted what difference is 4 fucken rainy days days gonna make ? How long do you think its gonna get supply chains moving , demand supply, demand What came first Chicken or egg
what’s with this guy!?!
Our_DA must register Steenhuizen at the nearest high school first before he thinks he can order CyrilRamaphosa around
Can we all sign a petition to havenSteinhuissen sent to Harvard, thet sent Lindiwe there after using her.
Ai 🙆🏾♂️
I wonder if DA constituency is happy with him. He seems not fine. Just me though.
Uhu!
How dare he order the President like that? He must win an election first and become a president then he can start or end anything he likes.
We are going to be annoyed by someone who must go an start argument with Hlaudi.
What his motive kanti
His lack of Matric make him not to follow logic on things
You don't qualify to make such demands.
EFF get massive government paycheques, secured during Covid in luxury homes & HiTech gadgets. Brothers & sisters owning medium, small & entrepreneur enterprises lost income, daily losing jobs & income. Food parcels & grants dont pay debt & not even reaching us. Break your silence
See the fucken BlackTwitter, they worry about John not having a matric certificate, not of job bloodbath. Julle ma se poes.
Its not John speaking. Someone has their hand up his arse
DM was for 21 days i cant remember the ANC coming up with these levels also all of a sudden its no longer 21 days we stuck its now 30 days at a time what BS is this?
When I hear any thing about Stein-Huis-en
That head is empty
This one must just voetsek.
I can't listen to this small boy
Yadika lomfo
uthini ubaas uthi vula boy
TThuliNdlovu 😂 😂 😂 😂
Imagine being disrespected by this young guy
When is this clown going to shutup? Always criticizing.
He's at it again🤦🏿♂️
Wena John uyaphapha 😂😂
Or what Little Johnny?
Or what small boy?
Fusegi wena matricless steenhuisen. Go back to school
Or else? Will he move to Australia
Unintelligent people just bash John for no reason other than that he is John. I hope these same people have their wallets & bank accounts wide open to give to those who cannot work. Knee-jerk reactions from people without critical thinking, is just immature & stupid.
Talk,talk,dont you realise he doesn't give a what you say
White privilege
Someone tell him his party needs to win an election first.
😂😂😂😂😂
If this white nunu was our president we could have been digging graves like brazil
so you want to go back to school since they said only grade 7 and 12 will return to school
DeanMacpherson Tell him.
I agree all lockdowns should be terminated
jsteenhuisen you think this country is your farm where you're having a spit braai with your friends from orania? Nie maan oom Johan
If he doesn't..what will John do?
I still can't believe MmusiMaimane was ousted by this moegoe 😂😂😂
When a white man speaks a black man listen This is the same guy who advocated for the opening of the economy and ending of the lock down
Just his face makes me 🤮🤮🤮🤮
We cannot continue giving attention to fools, they will always miss behave
What has this man added in terms of “real solutions”? PresidencyZA is slowly losing the public ...need only watch CNN to see the possible impact later on aka US downfall.
Sure boss. As soon as Cape Town goes back to Level 5!
If John can instruct our honorable president to open up the country, surely we can instruct him to take back our land. 👍🏾
PresidencyZA MYANC EFFSouthAfrica the boss is talking!!
Ngathi ingamphatha lo ukhuluma too much
jsteenhuisen where you not the same guy who was irritating us and saying Lock down is unlawful ?😂 you are indeed a crazy
President Ramaphosa.
Says the self proclaimed Boss.
Why is it important to report this again?👀
Imagine anyone ruling taking advice from jsteenhuisen , that's why D.A will never rule in this country. Nothing that comes out from them resembles change and care. But anyway what did we expect.
Back to school for you John! He thinks he runs the country, neh! He should drink a coffee, maybe he will wake up!
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Such bravado from mactricless desperate alliance leader
He will not see that.The lockdown will end in Aug
Are you going to court tomorrow John?
Or what?
Steenhuisen het ń moer se probleem
is he a president now 😣
This guy is a joke!!😂😂😂
Eyi akame kancane
Only if he means going back to Abet and catch up at school
Donald J. Steenhuisen has spoken, EFF has spoken and I have spoken, but at the end of the day it's up to those who were put in charge to make such decisions...oh and the economy.
This one is drunk in whiteness
😁😁
Are the laundry baskets overflowing with dirty clothes?
Go back to school
He doesn't seem to have a problem taking them from NDZ so why not Steenhuisen?
Education can help people to think rationally.
This one thinks he's the deputy president of South Africa yaz
Wtf is wrong with this guy?!🙄
Attention seeker 🤦🏽♀️
This one that failed to graduate at creche must shut up
uyahlanya lowo.
You're a real problem jsteenhuisen .
Yooh he sounds like he’s getting pressure elsewhere 🥴shame man😄
Uzenza umntu wamanyani losankwane angu Steenhuisen
he first started by demanding easing regulations, they were eased, now he is demanding for more, who the hell does he think he is?
😂 yes president Johna we are lead 🤣🤣🤣
High school dropouts telling the president of an entire republic what to do. What a joke.
What an annoying fellow😑
He want to go to school to finish his matric?
This matriculant is so entitled
Lidakiwe lelibhunu nxx.
B*$ch, shut tf up!
U r mad steenhuizen
I will frame this one day it will come in handy.
😂😂😂😂
Steenhuisen o ntapišitše.
CyrilRamaphosa MR.President tell this head boy to shut up.
Udakiwe lo
Nyaope is a serious problem in this country.
Judas, you are the leader by default, sit down boy
All interim leaders must be removed today. Not later in the year.
That would make a lot more sense. I would like to go for a walk after work today. Will the virus be gone only at the beginning of next month? What that last weekend when people want to buy alcohol? I am sure that many will be against what John suggested just because he said it.
Which channel were you watching. He did not stop the lockdown from 1 June. There are still ridiculous rules and not all businesses are allowed to open. This hole major f-up must be stopped completely. Let us get back to our lives.
He sounds desperate
Still remains a misery why DA want this lockdown ended yet people dying in their back yards everyday can't even for a mere minute stop think and come out with a solution on how to prevent this
So that there must be chaos
A boss give instructions....A Leader leads....huge difference
DeanMacpherson Yes please!!!
DeanMacpherson Ja asseblief. Want ons vryheid van Keuse in die drein af. Ons word tenagekom deur mense wat dink hulle weet wat ons benodig en wat nie. Die baklei was teen die virus nou is dit al teen ons as mens self en reg op vryheid van denke en spraak asook gevoel. 😭😭 PresidencyZA
Exactly.
End it on his behalf
That is madness
this Our_DA fool
All those views are correct but can anything be done about it? Can politicians unite fir a cause
Steenhuisen you must shut up please
He's mad,allows yourselves to be ruled. These dingleberry does not want to be told.
This is what happens if you take the money from the whites.Ramaphosa took their money,when he became the ANC President,now he must payback the money,by making decisions that do favour them.Their businesses are suffering,therefore Ramaphosa must come to their aid.
John is losing it
I don’t like his tone 😬...
Agree
Baaskap
No he's not normal
He is just looking for attn
Kante keng🙈, he wants to do door-door campaign to solidify his DA presidency 😂🤣😂
School first, then President Ramaphosa will take orders from you Steenhuisen!
What a whiner 🤣🤣🤣😭
He spoke like an intern he is
😈😴so say 89% of south africans who you represent i guess
Go and win elections first or just keep quiet
Nothing is ever right and never will everybody will be pleased. So bite the bullet like the rest of the world. And get in with it.
Workers are not slaves
Mara John 🤔
Can you start Matric today not tomorrow, there are online classes.
Only you can make it happen jsteenhuisen . .. you are our only hope
I agree you correct enough is enough
Tyhini
You're also starting to sound like Ramphosa. Fedup with the whole lot of you....
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