Endumeni Mayor offers message of support
The Mayor has urged residents to work together to overcome the challenges of Covid-19.
Endumeni Mayor, Sduduzo Mdluli has called on residents to play their part and help ‘flatten the curve’ with Covid-19.
The Mayor recently released a statement, urging residents to stay at home and heed the call of President, Cyril Ramaphosa.
“We call upon residents of our municipal area to comply with the given restrictions and orders, because the President has opted for these stringent measure to save the lives of the citizens of the Republic. The current infection number is too much and two deaths is too many, we cant afford more infections.”
He explained that as the lockdown itself was aimed at mitigating the spread of the virus, residents had to abide by the conditions set out by the President and the National Command Centre.
“Safe to say, the country seems to be managing so far, but the reality is that people whose lives are in danger here are the ones who do not want to comply with the law, thus making prevention efforts so difficult to implement through a lockdown initiative. We need to join hands and fight this pandemic during these 21 days as we cant afford anything beyond 21 days.”
The Mayor added that the municipality had embarked on a number of initiatives aimed at raising awareness around the lockdown, which included the use of loudhailers, until such time that ‘the message is heard’.
“We have spread the message on staying at home: ‘The virus does not move around, it’s humans that move the virus, so stay at home.’ We stay at home not because we love to, but we shall stay in order to reduce the spread of the virus. Staying at home further gives the authorities ample time to deal with treatment of the already infected people within the confined numbers, as opposed to dealing with widespread infections which may lead to a catastrophe beyond our means as a country.”
Cllr Mdluli further called on residents to help those in need during the lockdown, as municipal officials had interacted with some who were frustrated because of socio-economic conditions and poverty.
“Poor people’s livelihood is mainly a hand to mouth type of survival. They have expressed their fears to us, that they can not survive the duration of the lockdown because for them, every day they must wonder as to where will get their next day’s meal. We call upon businesses and those who have enough to give to the poor during the lockdown – a meal per day can make a difference. We thank those public servants who are in the essential services, patriots who continue to serve our nation, and communities during these difficult and testing times.”
” Let us all work together to stop the spread of the virus; we shall overcome.”
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