South Africans were quick to respond with their thoughts:

@Lady_Bee.

CLOSE PARLIAMENT FOR 2 YEARS. SEND ALL POLITICIANS TO SCHOOL TO LEARN , HONESTY, INTEGRITY, COMPLETE THEIR STUDIES, NO MORE FAKE QUALIFICATIONS

So we send teachers WHERE? To the same people that taught them wrong? What an admission of total failure, political incompetence and ignorance.

@ShawdyBrowns

honestly they should have thought of this during lockdown

@Marianne

His so-called solution is not well thought out at all. Who thinks of these things? Ridiculous. He wants to cripple the economy even more. How he became wealthy other than corruption is a mystery.

@Mrs_J

I still want my salary and housing allowance and increase each year for those two years.

@mihller_savage:

hayyy close schools for what???😭😭....ohhh it's because kaloku your kids are done with school neh - we want to finish school

Although Cyril Ramaphosa's wife and children prefer to keep a low profile, we do know this about their education - and doubt very much that they would have spent two years “playing in the streets” while growing up.

Tumela Ramophosa - Master's in International Business from the Hult International Business School in San Francisco.

Andile Ramaphosa - Bachelors degree in accounting and statistics from University of Cape Town

Keneilwe Ramaphosa (also known as Kiki) - Bachelor of Architectural Science from the University of Cape Town and a Master's degree from Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.

Mashudu Ramaphosa studied at the University of Cape Town.

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