EDITORIAL: The president and his executive must not be intimidated by the ANC’s alliance partners, the Irvin Jims of this world and other noise makers from within the governing party
Afew people have said that after waiting for an hour for President Cyril Ramaphosa’s state of the nation address to start on Thursday, they switched channels or went to bed.Well, they at least spared themselves another 30 minutes of EFF theatrics, which were never going to achieve anything meaningful.
It was a president trying to reassure a citizenry that increasingly feels he has not delivered on his initial promise, that he was aware of all the challenges the country is facing, and would fix them. The president gave the green light for the decentralisation of power generation, signalling a new “trajectory of energy generation”.
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