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Dorothea Gopie
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Dorothea Gopie is a South African politician. She served as a Member of the Western Cape Provincial Parliament from May 2014 to May 2019. Gopie is a member of the African National Congress.
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They are the people that are to be blamed and they are wrong. And during this time they are supposed to be working together to get to a solution, not blaming a group, a minority group of people, and an elderly man. During this time even, the month of July, we in South Africa are celebrating the month of Madiba. And Mr Lee is equal to Madiba because he is an elderly man that has put his time aside to help other people. Instead of being given the help that he needs, he gets the blame. I think that is so wrong of them. I think they know they are in the wrong and they don’t have an answer to give to the people.”
When the outbreak happened, they were supposed to close (the borders). It is what was done here in South Africa. When it started, the first people that were affected, our government called for level five and shut down, and no flights out and no visiting other countries and so on, because our government cared about the citizens and not about trading and money-making. That is what was expected from the South Korean government, to care about the citizens and not caring about making money and advertising and trading. So, they are to blame.”
As a religious leader and the chairperson of the religious body, I want to say that Mr Lee has our prayers as religious leaders and we want to thank him, as an elderly man that has taken the time and care for other people while he could have just thought about himself and been selfish. But he thought about the citizens and not about himself. And he also went so far as reaching out to other countries in order to help South Korea. So, at this moment, he is being given the blame but we are praying for him because we know that he meant good and we are taking him as the image of Madiba because Madiba has spent his life in jail for other people, not for himself, not thinking about his wife and his kids but thinking about the nation and that is what Mr Lee is doing at the moment
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