South Africa has an active civil society ever ready to safeguard its fundamental freedoms and rights, and this is a great asset in the battle against the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic.
This was the opinion of President Cyril Ramaphosa who, in his newsletter to the nation on Monday morning, noted that South Africans often take their healthy and robust democracy for granted.
The country counts itself as among the most politically engaged citizenry in the world, he said.