WATCH: Ramaphosa thanks SA for carrying heavy cross of Covid-19 pandemic in Easter message

CAPE TOWN – President Cyril Ramaphosa on Friday delivered a message for the virtual Good Friday service, lamenting the untold suffering brought to people across the world by the current coronavirus scourge as the number global deaths linked to the virus neared 100,000.

“The coronavirus pandemic is a heavy cross being carried on the shoulders of all of humankind. Rich and poor, young and old, black and white, men and women suffer under its weight. But the message of Easter is also one of hope, of recovery, of triumph and of rebirth,” said Ramaphosa. “We have the utmost confidence that the measures we have taken, of declaring a national state of disaster and of imposing a lockdown, have been correct and absolutely necessary.”“Together with other measures like closing our borders and putting an end to public gatherings, we are seeing progress.

“It has been hard for those who have lost loved ones to be unable to attend their burials. Couples wishing to marry have had to postpone their plans. But you have endured with patience. In the true spirit of Christian fellowship, you have extended a hand to the poor, the sick and the hungry,” he said.

“The pastoral and charity work by our Christian community has been a lifeline for many of our people in their hour of need and comfort in their time of sorrow. On behalf of all the people of South Africa, I thank you."

The human kind regime will carry it's own cross

You are preaching my President.

Yeah but Jesus was only inconvenienced for less than 3 days and is mythical what a stupid analogy and dishonest or him

A cross too heavy for black people.

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