Africa’s corona response rests on two things: markets and money transfers
African countries can’t just copy rich countries’ responses to COVID-19. Here’s what they can do instead.
African countries could reconfigure markets to ensure they can stay open in some form. Credit: Erin Johnson.
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As the coronavirus pandemic has spread across the world, it has become clear that not all countries have the same options for responding to it. Rich countries have a range of options for allocating spending and strengthening health systems. Poor countries – including many in Africa – often have few resources and little public health capacity to begin with.
But that doesn’t mean that African countries have no options. Public markets and cash transfer programs can cushion the economic blow of the pandemic, and make it easier for people to stay safe.
Four options for responding to the pandemic
To get a sense of the possible set of responses, let’s look at the four main strategies that have been considered by rich countries. They all address the twin goals of containing the virus and keeping people from going hungry until a vaccine can be developed. They involve different combinations of public health interventions and economic support.
The first is “uncontrolled spread”. This means letting the pandemic spread mostly unchecked in order to rapidly build immunity in the population. This leads to many avoidable deaths, completely overwhelms the healthcare system, and causes a major economic crash as employees get sick and supply chains are interrupted. It is clearly a bad idea. The UK briefly considered this approach before changing its tune.
The second is “lockdown without income replacement”. This involves prohibiting people from leaving their homes for non-essential activities in order to contain the spread the virus, but without compensating them if they lose their jobs because of the pandemic. It’s not too expensive for governments to do this, but runs the risk that people will go hungry without work and worsens the rate of economic contraction. The US is a good example of this approach. It is only replacing a fraction of people’s lost incomes with a one-time $1,200 cheque, not even one month’s rent in many cities.
The third is “lockdown with income replacement”. This approach slows the spread of the virus while preserving people’s ability to access the goods and services they need to stay healthy. However, it’s also extremely expensive. There are a variety of ways for governments to replace lost incomes. These range from paying companies to keep their workers on board (like Denmark) to offering direct cash transfers to people who’ve lost their jobs (like Canada).
The fourth and final response is “testing and containment”. This involves testing enormous numbers of people in order to contain infections before they spread, and letting people who are not infected continue to work as usual. This is the Taiwan-Singapore approach and has been successful at constraining the spread of the virus while minimising economic disruption. It relies, however, on strong public health systems and access to hundreds of thousands of coronavirus tests.
What’s feasible for African countries?
We can immediately rule out two options. Uncontrolled spread is simply a bad idea, and many African governments are already taking steps to avoid this. Meanwhile, testing and containment requires extensive public health infrastructure that most countries on the continent do not have.
This leaves us with lockdowns, either with or without income replacement. At the moment, an increasing number of African countries have cut back on economic activity without immediately replacing lost incomes. This is clearly not sustainable. Many people live in poor urban neighbourhoods without regular access to water and food even at the best of times. Many others are subsistence farmers who depend on markets to access inputs like seeds and fertiliser. It is little surprise that some governments have already had to resort to violence to enforce these lockdowns. We can’t lose sight of the fact that hunger and violence are also threats to public health.
The best remaining option is to pursue a lockdown with income replacement. This will not be straightforward. Most African governments can’t afford to massively scale up their welfare systems in a short time. However, with a combination of donor support and targeted interventions to keep markets open while protecting vulnerable people, it may be possible to keep people from going hungry while also reducing the spread of the pandemic. People will only follow social distancing measures if they can meet their basic needs while doing so.
Keeping the economy running
One way to maintain incomes is to ensure a baseline level of economic activity can continue. This could involve physically reconfiguring markets – such as by expanding them, installing handwashing facilities and training retailers in safe product handling practices – so people can continue to buy and sell but with greater social distancing. It could also include staggered lockdowns in some neighbourhoods to keep markets open while controlling the number of people entering at any given time.
Public transport remains a point of vulnerability, but it may be possible to distribute masks and hand sanitiser at bus stops or via transport unions to lower the risk of transmission. This follows the lead of countries like Taiwan which have made masks mandatory for public transit users.
These kinds of practices could help keep some of the economy going. However, even with these in place, many will still lose their livelihoods as demand for things like tourism and agricultural exports drops. As well as these measures therefore, governments will have to directly replace people’s incomes.
Give people money
Since most people in Africa work in the informal sector, a Denmark-style approach of compensating businesses for keeping their employees isn’t feasible. Instead, the best solution is to provide cash transfers directly to individuals. These are less logistically complex than in-kind transfers of food and contribute to the normal functioning of food markets rather than completing with them.
The good news is that almost all African countries have existing social protection programmes which offer cash transfers to poor citizens. They do tend to have very limited reach, supporting only small percentages of the poor, but at least the infrastructure exists. There are also cash transfers run through humanitarian aid organisations and NGOs like GiveDirectly. As of 27 March, only a few African governments had announced plans to scale up their social protection programmes. However, most countries are early enough in the progression of their pandemics to be able to do this before infections peak.
African governments should immediately focus on scaling up the infrastructure for universal cash transfers. Aid donors must do the same. Many African countries can’t afford a huge increase in welfare expenses, especially as tax revenues fall during the pandemic. Major donors must step in to support them – ideally with grants rather than loans.
Time is really of the essence. Food prices have already begun rising and will continue to do so as imports get delayed or shut down and domestic food supplies are threatened by supply chain disruptions. Rapid coordination is needed to keep people from going hungry and ensure that all of the progress African countries have made against poverty in recent years is not lost.
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Even the two options that we can somehow implement have their obstacles. Most cash transfer programmes are residual and some depend on donor support.
I research informal systems that are prevalent in Africa and they can be leveraged to provide solutions at times like these. I keep thinking of their relevance today but not much comes up.
This crisis, when we overcome it will be a wake up call for us prioritize social welfare and public health systems.
Rachel thanks for the piece but at this point, I don’t know if donors are in position to help much considering that they are also struggling.
We can just say for now if we survive, we build household indipendence
The best strategic option for African countries is actually not listed in your article, the best strategies is far from the once you have written there. Africa is a unique continent that lacks basic amenities like electricity and water, lockdown of people or restriction of movement will cause more damages to people than the virus itself many people will die of hunger before the virus will even kill them, the best strategies for Africa is to allow its people to go out and work and develop immunity for d virus while the government focus on two basic things,
1. Since there are very few direct cases the government should focus on isolation of the idex cases and also concentrate on contact tracing and identify all the people that might have come incontact with the index carriers of the virus..Africa should not follow thus western method that are been use in europe america and Asia if it doesnt want is people to die more of hunger virus and if it doesnt want it economy to collapse and struggle for a very long time to recover from the impact of the economic collapse as aresult of the damage done to its economy by shut down and lockdown and restriction of movement…. Depending and believing in what the west is telling Africa to do to or is doing to fight the virus this will not help Africa.
2. Secondly What the government of these african coutries should do is to channel their energy and resources into finding local cure to the disease, as an african who have lived both in the west and in Africa for many years i know that the best strategies for africa in tackling this pandemic is far from those strategies been applied in europe and Asia because Africa is different and can’t afford any of those…
But what Africa has got that those countries of the west and Asia’s don’t have is extensive traditional knowledge of the use of alternative medicine to treat and contain diseases, what the african leaders should do is to assemble a group of its country’s expert in traditional medicine and give them a deadline of 7days to come up with the best and 100% efficient cure for coronavirus trough herbs and other traditional african medicine method, trust me the best herbs would be found within the deadline…
It will be interesting if the experience of cash transfers for C-19 response pushes NGOs to doing it more widely afterwards
Olam’s second option is the best that I have read ever since the outbreak of this virus. The biggest challenge about us Africans is that we tend to forget that we are Africans at time. This Eurocentric approach of dealing with our problems will cost us BIG time.
Where are you African herbalists!?
We need you!
Thanks, Rachel, for this serious thought sharing. I feel close to the view of Olam, the previous commentator. My thinking can be summarised as follows:
1. Focusing on those tested positive + their contact tracing for test and follow-up;
2. Minimizing social intermingling and maximizing handwashing (by massive sensitization and enforcement for personal and collective discipline to take some physical distanciation) without stopping work and business, except for intermingling-based activities like bars and night clubs;
3. Organising some form of solidarity for those who will be affected like those who live on intermingling activities which should be stopped like bars (bar waiters for instance will be affected);
4. Getting out of the restrictions progressively as the disease falls under control.
I heard lately about Africa’s plight with the corona virus and I may be able to help. I’m semi-retired as a wholesaler of copier supplies (mostly toners) and one of my contact reached out to me 2 weeks ago with large supplies of Corona Masks from the KN95 to the N95 and now the 3M 1860 (N95) masks. These are now in Europe or China and my prices are very good. I have millions available. I tried reaching out to Dr. Glenda Gray but couldn’t find a email address. If you or any of your associate wish to explore what I can do for you, please contact me. I spent a year in Africa in 1962 and a few months in Capetown
Hitherto, Africa is in trouble. I can see no working option. Lockdown’s side effects are of savere consequences. Freeing the people is the other.
But what I see is that Africa cannot contract this virus in the western ways even if people are set free.
1. We never have large scale movements between Africa and western world.
2. We have no capacity to move within our countries at any threatening frequency because of poverty, poor roads to link us, and general lack of needs.
3. Unlike western cultures that create a weak reason to travel within and outside their countries, if you seen an African aboard the Bus, you know it’s highly essential.
So, for the countries that have implemented lockdown, I think it is still a very good idea, but only for a short period to come, day three weeks. During this time, I think lots of sensitization has been done.
But now the virus is not about to go.
Sense of urgency now should be individual responsibility, so businesses can continue exchanging goods.
Something bad may still happen, but may not equal that of hunger, permanent loss of bussineses, and emerging violent crime, which may even render lockdowns useless!
You can say a lot but life is in the hands of the Almighty. Atleast it’s killing abroad for a change.
Thank God for that
In my humble opinion , I think Africa can risk uncontrolled spread since the death rate isn’t close to that of the other continents. I think Tanzania is taking that approach and the results aren’t that bad.
Another approach would be to facilitate the urban population whose businesses have been sereverely affected to return to the villages for a while, since most of Africa isnt quite as urbanized as the rest of the world. This will help decongest the cities,enhancing social distancing. It also allows for self sustainability as people could practice subsistence farming in the meantime. Governments would only be required to provide seeds and such like things. ..
This could work ,since most people in Africa earn daily wages,it allows for innovative ways to sustain one self and allows for cash to keep flowing beyond a mere baseline level of economic activity
Lockdowns create a panic and paralyse economies with or without government subsidies
Direct cash transfers is a tricky one to pull off but can be done in some ways to directly help families by subsidising food costs for example.
A familiy buys food from a supermarket or shop. In most cases that supermarket gives a reciept to the customer for the purchase of the goods sold.
Now a tricky part follows that involves a private technology firm (ideally a non profit) and a branch of government working together to quickly refund a portion of the money spent back to the customer.
The customer can turns in/ show or better yet takes a picture of the reciept and uploads it to a service that uniquely marks the reciept and verifies it with a known copy of that supermarkets reciept to verify its authenticity and also to prevent the same recipt from being used again to claim a refund.
Once the verification process is complete say in a few days or a week, a portion of the expenditure ( 20% 30% etc) on foodstuffs or other essential items as deemed appropriate by the bigger heads is then refunded to the customer/individual via say a mobile phone deposit or direct deposit into account.
The phone number or account number is also uniquely noted and tracked so as to be able to watch for and identify any offenders at this end.
This could be done for fuel purchases and other essentials for busineses and households too.
Unfortunately no plan is full proof and it does leave out the informal and local produce markets where cash transactions happen without reciepts but is still a feasable way to relieve some of the the pressure on citizens and extend their purchasing power acting in a way as a balance carried forward especially for the middle class.
As african nations work on tackling this health crisis we could also use this as an opportunity to look at ideas that develop or implement digital technology programs that can improve healthcare delivery, increase speeds of transactions and lower costs overall for citizens.
Dear Rachel, thank you for this thoughtful piece. For pointing out that a cut and paste solution is not appropriate for Africa; at least not this time. This is indeed time for some outside the Box thinking and critical leadership. Even within Africa, solutions have to be differentiated from country to country; depending on population size, life styles, cultures and so on. Lockdown with cash transfers and low level economic activity still offers some hope; despite that reality that the home is equally as dangerous as the outside. In African cities, people don’t only live close to one another, they live on top of each other. The notion of social distancing where several family members struggle to fit into a single room becomes unattainable. In the end, I believe what will work is a combination of social, economic and political approaches and a well informed citizenry, committed and mobilized to beat down this scourge.
This is awake up call to we Africans in all aspects let it be economically,politically and socially to think ahead of self sustaining and our own well being and to organize ourselves.Because after this pandemic we need to revive our health systems properly of not living our lives on probability.
Could we be reaching an APEX, with Covid 19 cases, says The Wolf of
Wall Street, Mr. Omar Abdulla??
by Sameera Dursot
(13 April 2020—Bloomberg) The Wolf of Wall Street, Mr. Omar Abdulla says that
fewer and fewer cases are being reported from Covid 19 infected areas New York,
Wuhan, Lombardi and Gauteng in the last several days, which is offering some
confidence in the market.
“We are seeing a plateau in the deaths across these communities and hopefully we
could see some of the losses felt during the period being eased.’ elaborated, Pres.
of The United States, Mr. Donald Trump.
CNN reported that cases in The United States are seeing a slowing amid the mitigation
and isolation process but we still have to keep to our social distancing.
The White House task team Doctor Anthony Fauci deliberated that cases are falling
slowly, and that we should all remember the thousands of dead at this critical time.
“We are not saying that people will get to work within the end of April, but what we
are seeing is a slowdown in infections.’
President of South Africa, Mr. Cyril Ramaphosa noted that cases in South Africa are
approaching 2500, after all South African’s were in a lockdown.
“I will be meeting with senior government officials to see if we can release the lockdown,
with strict curfews.’
However, The African Times reported that hundreds of Africans were still infected and
the mitigation processes still have to be kept in place.
“Africa has a very weak hospital structure, and if we have an outbreak similar to
Spain or The United States we could be in deep trouble. Let’s pray that our isolation
methods continue as we see more cases continue to drop.’
The Omar Abdulla Group which owns shares into Footprints Filmworks, Bitcoin SA, Forex SA,
Instagram SA and South African airways says that perhaps it is the time to see a reversal in the
market, slowly buying South African shares and other shares in Europe and The United States.
“We will be looking at buying small amounts of these shares, and increasing our leverage and
buying as less cases are reported. We are eyeing shares into Eskom, China Mobile, South African
Airways and laying out more shares of The Omar Abdulla Group on the medium of individuals to
trade.’
With cases showing a slight drop, market prices slowly recovering and more stimulus packages
being distributed we should remain slightly positive on the outlook for the next quarter, no withstanding that this pandemic could take as much as two years to recover to the prices
we were at.
“Oil looks like a good buy now, gasoline looks like a good buy now, and shares generally are a good
buy with good hedges into Gold and Silver.’ ended The Wall Street Journal.
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“Wet Markets,’ said to re-open as Covid 19, APEX looms, says
The Wolf of Wall Street, Mr. Omar Abdulla…??
by Fatima Noormahomed
(27 April 2020—Sunday Times) The Wolf of Wall Street,
Mr. Omar Abdulla
who spoke from his Beijing home this afternoon,
looped that China has been
opening up slowly with markets starting to see-saw
the Covid 19 pandemic.
“China is opening up slowly whilst the rest of the
world is coming out of
lockdowns and recessions. The Apex of the world
curve is still plateauing,
yet residents are still complaining of depression,
social abuse, and the
brill of not mingling with society.’
The World Health Organization (WHO) faces criticism
from The United States,
South Korea, Italy and Japan after helping hide the numbers
from China initially.
“The United States is withdrawing funding from WHO,
as more countries tend to
claim that WHO director, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus,
should resign, amid
the Corona Virus.’
China Daily reported that although the world is slowly
coming out off the lockdowns,
The Chinese wet markets are already starting to open.
“The Virus will just keep on coming back. The Virus originated
from wild animals yet
China fails to learn from their lessons by infecting the world.’
Across the w o r l d, markets are see-sawing awaiting the
‘flattening of the curve,’ with
buyers trying to find the bottom.
“We are looking at buying blue-chip companies at less than
50% of the value less than
three months ago. Our eyes are on companies,
South African Airways, China M0bile,
Vodacom, Pfizer, Sasol, Shell, Primedia Broadcasting,
Kentucky Fried Chicken, Bloomberg,
Shoprite and Wallmart.’
Meanwhile, Microsoft Founder, Mr. Bill Gates noted
that a vaccine was
‘soon on the cards,’ after pharmaceutical companies
were investing into
testing people who had the virus and the testing of
hydroxychloroquine.
“Hopefully, these treatments could work to fight
against the virus and people
are credited by using these treatments to fight the virus.’
The Omar Abdulla Group which owns shares into Bitcoin SA,
Forex SA, Twitter SA
and Instagram SA, says that his company was eyeing
investments into social media,
energy companies and pharmaceutical shares.
“We are all coming out of our stay at home curfews and markets
will recover this depression
and recession, still remaining verily cautious whilst buying
into these companies.’
President Trump concluded his statement to The New York Times,
that China is to blame for this
‘horrible, terrible,’ virus as the wet markets start to open, Unbelievable!
In a bid to see where Africa would land with the copy and paste approach we are emulating from the west, i stumbled upon your article, i am glad you pointed out that most of the approaches we are undertaking or thinking would not work, you stated clearly based on your perspective the approach you think can work, i would say conditional cash transfer in Africa is plagued by corruption in our system, a lot of the funds would not get to the appropriate quarters and this would lead to some certain individuals taking advantage and enriching themselves with this situation.
However, regardless of how we want to Africanize the pandemic, the lock-down is very essential to help cut down the rate at which our medical infrastructure would be overwhelmed, letting it roam freely would actually cause a lot of harm and also it would put too much pressure on our resources and health workers. That being said, i go with an earlier comment that said that we should look to solve the problem based on what we are experts at, which is the use of herbs, i see no reason why our scientist cannot collaborate with local herbalist to work on a composition of controlled dosage of our herbs to solve the problem. The west would not trust our average herbalist because they believe that whatever concoction arrived at has not measure of usage, here is where our educated scientist come in, by documenting the compositions in measurement and relating them to the formal school knowledge,administering them in appropriate dosages and keeping track of results and side effect would allow the western world believe that we know what we are doing.
Bottom line, we need to scale up testing, ease some of the lock-down to keep our economy rolling and go hard on funding a collaborative effort between African scientist and herbalists.
Captain Covid, disagrees with President Ramaphosa
to ‘release lockdown…’
By Zahra Lockhart
(7 May 2020—FF News) Captain Covid, Mr. Omar Abdulla
says that
the release of the lockdown could have ‘dire consequences,’ for
South Africa,
with cases reaching 5000 in the African nation and close to four
million worldwide.
“The President is thinking of boosting the economy with his release
of the lockdown,
yet this could have a negative effect causing cases in the
mother nation to rise, and
the increase of the spread of the virus.’ he looped.
Meanwhile, across the world, Covid 19 cases are starting
to roar with the latest
cases at meat packaging plants, nursing homes,
grocery stores and pharmacies.
“President Trump was too slow to close down The United States,
and President
Ramaphosa is too quick to open up the country. We could see a
surge in cases and
the rand reach R23.’ growled South Africa Today.
Speaking to Footprints in South Africa, local resident Ms.
Thando Sithole added that
there is absolutely ‘no social distancing,’ in the townships of Soweto,
Secunda, Khayalisha, Laudium, Lenasia,
and Sebokeng.
“President Ramaphosa is acting too quickly, and soon we will
be in a lockdown again.’
However, Oil prices around the world are still plummeting
due to a lack of demand and
the cut in production with Saudi Arabia and Russia.
“There is simply too much oil in the world, and we are running
out of storage space.’
reported The Economic Times.
Chewing on his pen and waving his hand through his hair,
Captain Covid,
Mr. Omar Abdulla says that outbreaks in South Africa are pretty low,
but we could see a spike in new cases in
Pharmacies, Grocery stores and meat packaging companies.
“President Ramaphosa is releasing the lockdown too early, and I
can foresee more cases with
more outbreaks at these facilities. Our request to the president is
this is too quick and more
lives will be lost.’
The Omar Abdulla Group which owns shares into Bitcoin SA,
Forex SA, Instagram SA
And Twitter SA said on their website that they will continue to
buy small amount of
shares into SEO companies Eskom, Telkom, South African Airways
and SABC.
“After receiving over R500 billion rand in loan packages and treasury
bond sales, we could
see an uptick in these shares.’
In o t h e r news, a UFO that was spotted and released by The
Pentagon is said to be
aliens either to cure us from The Corona Virus, and make the
virus strain even stronger
in parts of The United States and Europe.
“The flying sauces that were seen recently could be a sign
that we are not alone.’
NASA said on their website.
The Holy month of Ramadaan has now hit the world, with
Mr. Omar Abdulla said to meet
with Islamic leaders including Mufti Menk, Zain Bhika and Maher Zain.
“We wish all our Muslim leaders a peaceful and joyous Ramadan and Eid.’
Concluding his remarks to The Sunday Times, Mrs. Imaan Desai kissed
that he agrees
with The Omar Abdulla Group and once the lockdown has been released,
within a few weeks, we
will be in lockdown again.
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Bollywood Mafia ‘linked,’ to
The Omar Abdulla Group…??
by Jessica Kells
(10 July 2020—Investing.com) South African’s were shocked to hear
that the
secret underground Bollywood Mafia to be linked to Bollywood feature
film, “My father, The President,’ a documentary
about the handling
of the pandemic by presidents of the world,
produced by, Instagram SA.
SA’s leading and fastest growing company,
The Omar Abdulla Group.
Recently, the Bollywood mafia in Mumbai were
‘searching and looking,’
for investment
into Africa, especially the local South African Market.
“We were attracted by the unusual large following of
The Omar Abdulla Group, and
the relative market shares not only in South Africa,
but Indians in particular.’
elaborated,
Mafia boss, Mr. Imraan Jassat.
Jassat goes on to say that their company Pakistani Fashion Outlets
had paid Abdulla a
sum of $2 million dollars and the balance of $3 million dollars
‘once the job was done…’
According to The Pakistani Times, Abdulla had taken
the cash
and had only delivered
one million likes on their Instagram page,
and was asking for
more money, amid this
terrible pandemic.
The Omar Abdulla Group which owns shares into Bitcoin SA,
Forex SA, Instagram SA, Footprints Filmworks,
and Twitter SA said on their website that the company has one
of the largest following
on social media, and accepted the $2 million
dollars from Pakistani
Fashion Outlets for
the promotion and marketing of fashion gear, but now,
the company is demanding more
market promotion without paying more.
“They are now requesting five million views for
the same price on
social platforms. Yes,
we agree media viewership has been up a
whopping 250% since the
pandemic, but that does
not mean we have to offer more likes
for the same price.’
Pakistani Mafia boss, Mr. Himesh Hathurani said that he
was very upset
that the deal has suddenly gone
sour as they are willing to pay the additional
$3 million dollars to
The Omar Abdulla Group, but
does not know if the company can produce the
5 million more views on social
media as promised.
“You never know with The Omar Abdulla Group.
We have been promoting
our brands of fashion,
and we want to buy more market share
in Africa and expand
into the Bollywood sector.’
Bollywood King, Mr. Shar Rukh Khan who spoke to
Bollywood News,
says that The Omar Abdulla
Group has been promoting their businesses
on social media,
but the
company seems to be losing
It’s lustre.
“Before the pandemic the company was producing
world-class
films, now it’s all about
Tiktok videos and dance shows.
The Bollywood Mafia should
demand their money back.’
Jassat who gave the money to Abdulla back in January 2020,
says that the company has received
the leverage from Abdulla, but he is demanding more money
for less work.
“All we wanted was market share in Africa, and now
he is becoming greedy.
If necessary,
we will use the necessary force to gain
traction from him.’
Mr. Omar Abdulla who spoke from his Sandton home,
in South Africa,
says that he should of never
taken the money from The Bollywood Mafia, as they are
threatening to ‘break his legs.’
“We cannot work under control or under
strict management.
The work for the $2 million dollars
has been completed and the remaining
$3 million dollars has
to be paid for the rest of
the marketing to continue.’
Bollywood actress Ms. Shradda Kapoor cooled from Delhi
that Bollywood had
long financed African investment and was looking
forward to Abdulla’s presidential
film, “My Father, The President…”
“He has the looks and dance moves to make
this film a blockbuster.’
IOt is said that the underground Bollywood Mafia,
has been hard
at work with investments into
hundreds of companies in Africa.
“Most Asians want to know about the gossip of Indians
in South Africa,
and the global diaspora,
and who knows if Abdulla’s company can
produce good quality
films that can inspire Bollywood and
counterparts.’ ended a Lahore resident.
The ongoing war between The Bollywood
Mafia and
The Omar Abdulla Group continues…
Captain Covid ‘calls for,’ flattening the curve, as Covid Cases,
start to flatten…??
by Azra Akoob
(8 August 2020) Captain Covid, Mr. Omar Abdulla South Africa’s leaving
Covid warrior who
spoke from his Johannesburg home this afternoon, says that cases in
South Africa and throughout the world
are starting to flatten
as world
cases top 20 million.
“Cases are starting to flatten as the world seeks new ways of
prevention against
the Corona Virus. This is by far one of the worst pandemics
of the century, and
we should all remain confident by end next year, this pandemic will end.’
he was quoted as saying.
Speaking to The Durban Times, Ms. Ayesha Moti
added that she has
been in quarantine
for the l a s t six months, she is dying for some fresh air and
meeting new people.
“I have been cooked up in my four-bedroom home,
and all I can
do is hope and
pray that this evil Chinese virus is brought to book.’
However, President of South Africa, Mr. Cyril
Ramaphosa said
on his online presentation
to the SABC that schools will remain closed, cigarettes will
remain banned and alcohol
will be banned.
“We are creating a new history in South Africa, and I
fear for Gauteng.
The province
has remained the epicentre with Western Cape and
Polokwane not far behind.’
Abdulla says that the global pandemic has seen the lives
of close to one million lost,
and yet people still attend weddings, parties and other
social gatherings.
“If we remain “At home; At peace,’ we will see the
curve start to go down.’
Meanwhile, President of The United States,
Mr. Donald Trump has been campaigning
online and has been losing in polls to Joe Biden.
“We would off seen much more Covid cases
if he was president.
We closed our borders
early to China, and closed business trade with all countries.’
Markets around the world have been boosted by
investments from
governments in the
form of social grants and interest rate drops.
“Trillions of dollars have already been invested into countries
hardest hit by this
Pandemic. We hope the curve flattens so that people can get
back to work and
more money will flow through the economy.’ spiked, SA
economist Mr. Isaac
Mabalala.
The Omar Abdulla Group is an investment company
into Footprints SA,
Bitcoin SA,
Forex SA, Instagram SA, Tik Tok SA, Dance SA,
South African Airways and Pretoria Print.
“We are confident that this pandemic will come to a closure once
a vaccine is founded.
Our ties with Mr. Bill Gates and investments with
Mr. Warren Buffett will further guide
our future investments.
The New York Times reported that President Joe Biden will
surely win the election in
November 2020, as cases start to drop and the economy is further
stimulated.
Concluding his remarks to The Gauteng Times, Mr. Omar Abdulla
says that many
thousands of lives have been lost, and intimidates good returns
from his companies,
as more companies seek to invest into companies that do well
with good returns.
“Captain Covid,’ investigates “Sudden death,’ of
Sushant Singh Rajput…??
by Fehmeda Thokan
(13 September 2020) Captain Covid, Mr. Omar Abdulla
South Africa’s leading Covid warrior
arrived in Mumbai last week on investigations of the
‘sudden death,’ of
Bollywood Superstar, Sushant Singh Rajput.
Rajput who was found ‘hanged to the ceiling fan,’ of his Bollywood
apartment
Is said to have been murdered by his girlfriend
Rhea Chakraborty.
Chakraborty who spoke to Footprints in Mumbai, says that she loved
Sushant and
never meant to harm him by feeding him drugs that could
lead to his death.
“It was suicide, he could not take the pressure, he was heart-broken,
and he was
not making money in Bollywood. He was planning a career
in farming.’
Abdulla who met with Sushant earlier in 2016, says that Sushant
was becoming
The King of Bollywood after previous hero’s Shar Rukh Khan,
Salman Khan, Aamir
Khan and Saif Ali Khan was falling.
“Perhaps it was the Bollywood Mafia who killed Sushant or his
devious fiancé,
Rhea.’
Speaking to The Bollywood Times, local businessman Mr. Iqbal Sookal, noted that
It’s been f o u r months of investigations by The Mumbai Police and CBI,
and yet India
cannot ‘come to terms,’ with the death of Sushant Singh Rajput.
“Everyday I shed a tear because of the murder that took place.
We pray for justice for Sushant and bring their murderer killers to justice.’
The Omar Abdulla Group which owns shares into Bitcoin SA, Forex SA,
Instagram SA, TikTok SA, Jobs SA, Footprints SA and other shareholding is
said to be one of South Africa’s leading and fastest growing companies.
“With Covid cases throughout the world coming down,
markets are starting to boom, and we could see an even bigger
jump in growth December 2020.’ the company read on
their website.
Another resident Ms. Farah Ramlall who spoke to India Today leaped that
the death of Sushant will be mourned by millions
of his fans throughout the world.
“India has lost an iconic hero during these tough
Covid Times.’
Whilst markets start to open up and boom, The Omar Abdulla Group continues
to bring future news and investments today, with ongoing
interest into the Asian and European markets.
“One has to learn from the story of Sushant that one day one can have
everything and the next nothing. Lets invest wisely into our futures,
so that we protect the ones we love.’ Poked The Saturday Star.
Captain Covid, Mr. Omar Abdulla ended by saying that he was ‘happy,’
that world cases were coming down, amid a vaccine being found soon.
“Whilst thousands have died from Covid, we should remember the story
of Sushant Singh Rajput to honour our heroes during
these tough times…’
Shar Rukh Khan, Omar Abdulla, Priyanka Chopra and Justin Bieber
said
‘to feature,’ in upcoming Airline Disaster Flick…??
by Alison Kells
(April 2021—Hollywood Now) The King of Tik Tok Omar Abdulla is said to
feature alongside
Hollywood and Bollywood celebrities-Shar Rukh Khan,
Priyanka Chopra and Justin Bieber
this coming fall in what has been nicknamed the
movie of the year, according to movie buffs across the world.
“The plot revolves around the boarding of Flight Mumbai 7867 from Mumbai
International Airport to California World Base, and on board the flight are the co-stars.
As the Boeing 747 is in mid-air, the plane crashes with another plane, mid-air and
crashes into the Atlantic Ocean. Many of the crew and passengers die with
only some members left into the lonely ocean, set to fight for their lives.’
said SA film director, Mr. Anil Singh.
Speaking from his Mumbai home, with his now long hair, Mr. Shar Rukh Khan
bragged that after reading the script for the airline disaster,
he was excited to be part of the airline disaster and was
excited to be working with Omar Abdulla and Justin Bieber.
“I believe there is a romance sequence where when we are
fighting for our
lives in the ocean, someone falls in love, and there is
some dancing and
good music to couple a traditional Indian movie.’
According to The Saturday Star, the outlet read on their website that
The Omar Abdulla Group,
Neflix, Showmax, Dharma Productions and Disney to be financiers of
this thriller movie with some people anticipating a love
romance between
Abdulla and Chopra.
“We are unsure of the details of the love story, but the movie
revolves around a high-speed airline crash, where the survivors are
left for weeks floating on aircraft debris and only
living on fish from the ocean.’
California Superstar, Mr. Justin Bieber pooled that the airline disaster
movie which has been named
“Disaster from hell,’ will feature some of his music
and he plays a cameo role as the pilot of the disaster,
but eventually dies.
“I am all new to Bollywood movies, but I believe some Hollywood
producers are part of the film. My role will include a dance on the
airplane and flight controls of the aircraft.’
Leading the star cast, Ms. Priyanka Chopra wept by saying that when
she read the script of the blockbuster, it reminded her of the sinking
Titanic, as the movie is based on a true story.
“Disaster from hell moved me the moment I read it, and it will be good to
work with the legends Shar Rukh Khan and Omar Abdulla again.’
Concluding his remarks to South Africa Today, Mr. Omar Abdulla
concluded that he was
‘thrilled and spilled,’ to be part of the movie, and warned residents to
‘hold onto their seatbelts,’ for a thrilling adventure, which features
some of the highest paid actors.
“We cannot reveal too much of “Disaster from Hell,’ but it’s a
movie that you can
watch with your six-year-old, or your wife, it has everything
a movie has to offer.’