Fancy a long weekend?
The British monarch died last week and will have a state funeral on Monday at Westminster Abbey in London.Ramaphosa will attend the funeral with many other world leaders, but South Africans have taken social media to ask the president to declare it a holiday in SA.
No!
The colonized are debating a memorial for the face of colonialism?
Did we have a holiday when King Zwelithini died to mourn him ?
We need a permanent holiday from the anc misadministration!..!
No let the European mourn their Queen
Hell No
Cannot believe there are south africans that want to mourn the death of a foreign monarch 🤦🏼♀️
I don't think we must mourn our killer and person who was part of people who stole our minerals
Even with Mandela there was no holiday. Leska rehafela. Mourn wie vir wat?
The death of the queen is sad, but has no material bearing on the majority of South African society. I'm from Scottish stock anyway 0😁
Naturally the oppressed don’t mourn the oppressor.
Rather have a public holiday the day we are told loadshadding is the thing of the past stage5
To mourn a slave master?
COMMENTS: 1. I respect the queen but no more holidays please; we already have too many of them. 2. Public holidays ought to be privatised. It makes no sense that all holidays should be mandatory ('statutory') for everybody. We are a lazy, unproductive lot hellbent on partying.
Hell no! Cyril can 'quiet quit' on his job but the rest of us need to try and get this economy going. With now Stage 5 loadshedding we need all hands on deck.
No we need to get eskom back up and running
Akubenjalo Akuloviwe ngoMsombuluko.. 😁 A day off will do 🍻
Which queen?
We don't mourn racists, should we been given a day off to celebrate the death of this lady, I guess so, and who's economy is ailing? Natives have never had economic C freedom
'Suddenly I support the royals and think I need Monday off' - ....really, lol!! This is your idea of a poll option? 3 and 1 invoke the same answer. Sincerely I hope you are being farcical because if this is serious journalism....SMH
When you do polls you dont supply reasons based on what you think your opinions are. a simple yes/no would do. Add an open ended text input if you wanted further qualifying reasons. My vote would be no because I am not British. Not because the economy cannot afford it
We need our precious stone
Who are we mourning now?
Argh!
OH PLEASE!🙄
Lona la nyela lona
Knowing South Africans it would be braai and booze, we celebrating ✊🏼🤣
She must rest in hell
No...we have enough blackouts
No!
That man must just come back and forget the Englican queen... Come back lana and fix eskom
She is not our queen. Fusek
Yoh... You did not mourn Winnie Madikizela-Mandela she fought for Africans. Now you want to mourn European who dehumanized Africans? 🤔 Something is terribly wrong here
Voetsek
This is the only growing calls in South Africa
No we don’t
Mourning an oppressor and a perpetrator of black slavery is an insult to the black people. What about declaring the date of the death of King Zwelithini a public holiday 🤔
I don't think mourning will be a right move. mmmm we are not British. We have lots of problems to accommodate another burden from another continent.
Sekufe bani futhi nkosiyam? Noma uye lo sesthombeni?
Look at the options 🤣🤣🤣🤣
🤣🤣🤣 SAns please tell us the truth 🤣🤣🤣
Take leave if you feel the need to mourn. If you pay your own wages feel free to forego your income for the day
Ay suka with your holidays, we hold no alegence with that minerals thief
For what?We are not mourning anything...
Mourn what, are you people at Sunday Times drunk 🥴
Why the fuck should we mourn Elizabeth?
Tsek
No.need for a holiday! Moving along
These are some of the statements that contribute to depression
What? You have a nerve to even ask that nonsense.
no
Fokof mourn what
No please hayi Ska la re tena.
Mourn for what? For slaughter of Africans? Ramaphosa and his racist whites can just go to hell with their queen
Mourn what? Don't be crazy, don't involve us pls
You're mad 😠 😡
Stop your useless lies. Whe can not mourn that thing. South Africa is poor because of her and all western countries that steals minerals in Africa and she killed more Africans.
We want a public holiday but not to mourn that dead thieving murderous gangleader!!
Why?
Then give SA a week to mourn Isilo samaBandla uZwelithini Juuuuu nongasifakelwa nina distracting us ngolomgodoyi womfazi What is RamaPhalaphala selling off these days phela we know you
No
Even though u are restricting us to the economy, it’s not about the economy, we dont want your queen
Mourn for a thief ?
Nope
Mourn for what now,zwelithini died the no mourning
What about King Zwelithini?..please don’t ever disrespect us
Mourn Satanist devil little Princes snake black mamba never
Why must we mourn the death of our oppressor? It doesn't make any sense.
Let the Brits mourn for their monarch, not us. We are not interested , we have a dozen queens and kings anyways
That is nonsense, there is no way we can mourn invader of South Africa🚮🚮🚮
Whose queen ? Guys please stop this harrassment We never asked for public holiday
No not at all
No
Which South Africans
Do not insult us please
No no no stop lying we never asked.
Yes please, we need another unproductive funfilled braai day, costing the economy unrecoverable millions!
'we have had an overwhelming response and a number of other people as well said we should, and it shall be so..'
Day off will do
Not a day to mourn bt to celebrate...
These white people baya’s delela manje,
Nidakiwe ngeke nibone lokho; kwashona Mdlokombane kaze nikhulume ngama Holiday.
Imagine mourn our coloniser/oppressor I blame eff/malema.
Nah! Mourn a witch? Voetsek.
Im a Brit living in SA. Id love a public holiday, but the idea is ridiculous. SA is a republic, and doesnt even give public holidays when its own monarchs die. Why should there be a public holiday for the British monarchs funeral?
Niyasdakelwa nina.
Yerrrr u people. Who want such a hooiday
Haibo!
Did they mourn the death of any of our Kings in England? 😡😡😡😡
Le bua nonsense
Voetsek
Hell No!
No. We want a Chris Hani, Steve Biko, Marikana victim etc public holiday
Dakiwe shlanganaphi
😂😂😂😂😂 Hebana
We can have a day off but not to mourn the queen. Rather to mourn our failing state.
Good leadership DA
Rubbish Have they mourn and took a day off for any of ours?
SA is not mourning
This is funny because there's no way we're going say no to a public holiday. Especially on a Monday. Who doesn't want a long weekend?! We don't even care what the holiday is for, as long as it's a holiday.
Look we're part of the Commonwealth but the queen is not our head of state so why would we be mourning, I don't care either way If you feel so bad about it, just put in for a normal day off, I have things to do
Hay hay hay singenaphi thina
What queen?
No
Yes Please tog every Monday of the week please Ramaphosa wethu
SA has enough public holidays already - ANY more would just hurt the ailing economy even more.
South Africa has not lost any Oueen but Britain. Get your History correct. But racists, clever blacks and Stratcom will disagree. Hope you understand
Have we become a British colony again?
They did make Mandela day a public holiday; why would they make the Queen’s day a public holiday?
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I don't think its up to the president to decide, let the owners of south Africa decide and owners are the NGOS, Media, foreigners,WMC and those prepaid politicians that always pretend to represent South Africans.
Nidakiwe
Hell NO.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Absolute madness.🤣🤣🤣
Makes zero difference, Eskom is fucking the economy up as it is.
lesatlo renyela
I don't think so
Seriously? You’re playful. To even bring that up 🙄