Transport Minister, Fikile Mbalula has been under fire after a comment he made at his media briefing on Thursday.
In his briefing to the media and South Africans, he spoke on his department’s latest measures to curb the spread of Covid-19.
Mbalula is receiving backlash for what media has perceived as an insensitive Covid-19 “joke”.
However, Mbalula warned that the virus is no longer a “theory”.
Mbalula said: “It hits at home, takes your wife while you’re busy talking in the streets, ‘Mbalula Minister of Transport, yada-yada,’ Nozuko dies at home.”
A social media user criticized Mbalula, saying: “This is a slap in the face to everyone who passed away from the virus and the survivors who fought tooth and nail to survive Covid-19. Families are grieving because of this thing. So insensitive.”
Another user called the video “distasteful”, saying there was nothing funny about death.
Watch video below:
Mbalula on Covid: usathi yada yada… gwaaap Nozuko. pic.twitter.com/AqD1xY3Pq8
— Kgothatso Madisa (@kgmadisa) July 16, 2020
