‘I asked them to come to the manifesto’: Ramaphosa consoles bereaved families

ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa.

The piercing and trembling cries of a distraught woman echoed through the Mayflower Municipal Building as President Cyril Ramaphosa paid his respects to the families of those who lost their lives when a bus crashed in Dumbe, KwaZulu-Natal on Sunday.

On Tuesday, when Ramaphosa visited the families at the Chief Albert Luthuli Municipality in Mpumalanga, he promised that the government and the ANC would ensure that the deceased are given a dignified funeral on Saturday.

Ramaphosa said: “I thought that I should come because I was the one who called them to eThekwini to listen to the election manifesto, which I delivered at the instruction of the national executive committee. I felt a responsibility to come because they came to Durban to listen to me as the president of the ANC. My heart felt deep pain when I heard that this bus had overturned and eight people died and others were injured.”