ANALYSIS: SONA 2020: What are Ramaphosa’s limitations? By Stephen Grootes
he has some pull at his disposal
And the government has run out of money. It cannot bail out SAA or Eskom or any other entity anymore.The most urgent crisis facing the nation concerns Eskom and the fact that it cannot produce enough electricity to avoid load shedding . But Eskom has a brand new CEO; Ramaphosa now needs to come with an announcement to make us forget all previous SONA announcements. That will not be easy.
It should be noted here that the only people from Cosatu who spoke about this in public were both appointees, its spokesperson Sizwe Pamla and its parliamentary officer, Matthew Parks. Neither of them have to ever face an election. The first Cosatu person to dial back this proposal was its elected general secretary, Bheki Ntshalintshali.likely to fight thisAfter Zuma took over the Presidency in 2009 he, as did previous presidents, made certain promises during his annual speech.
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