AFTER 750 days of Mzansi being in a National State of Disaster, things are beginning to open up.
This after President Cyril Ramaphosa announced the end of the lockdown.
The ending of the National State of Disaster comes with a lot of expectations from people.
Many people lost their jobs and businesses collapsed.
Social distancing, regular hand washing and funerals with fewer people are some of the things SunReaders want to permanently adopt. into their lives.
Daily Sun spoke to residents from Mamelodi, Tshwane, about the end of lockdown.
Sunnyboy Mashilo (59) said he was happy lockdown has ended as they’ve been suffering.
“I’m looking forward to getting a job. Government must now work hard to make sure we get jobs so we can feed our families,” he said.
Mzwandile Gumede (48) said he was excited about not wearing a mask.
He said he has been having a hard time with it and wore it as he feared getting arrested.
“The masks are also affecting our health. We can’t breathe fresh air because of them. The sooner people get vaccinated, the better.”
Rabelani Dzuguda (29) said he was excited that he will be able to go back to teaching. children in his community about art.
“I can’t wait to start having fun teaching art again,” he said.
While everyone is excited by the news, Sangoma Maria Tshabalala said she was concerned that the lockdown might have been ended prematurely.
“My concern is that Covid-19 will come again. It’s too soon to relax the regulations.”
Mpho Tshikomana (29) from Diepsloot, north of Joburg, said people must change how they conducted funerals before the lockdown. She said it was much cheaper for families to conduct funerals because they spent less money. on food and other services. “When people are less, even the funeral proceeding becomes simple.”
“I recently went to my sister-in-law’s funeral, we saved almost R7 000,
Cynthia Moyo (59), also from Diepsloot, said: “People should continue carrying masks for when they go into shops because coronavirus is not gone.”
“People shouldn’t forget to wash their hands and must also acknowledge that the situation we were in was hard and killed a lot of people.”
Themba Baloyi (39) from Meadowlands in Soweto believes people should still wear masks in mask wearing should also be part of people’s lives, especially crowded places.
“But it will be hard to manage, especially in taverns because we’re uncontrollable when we’re drunk,” he said.
