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Ebrahim Harvey | Ramaphosa rubbed salt on SA's wounds with his Freedom Day speech

President Cyril Ramaphosa,Mara Louw and Panyaza Lesufi at the 2024 Freedom Day National Celebration at Union Buildings on Saturday in Pretoria.

There is a startling contrast between what President Cyril Ramaphosa had to say about our accomplishments since 1994 on Saturday during his Freedom day speech, and the desperately dire socioeconomic crisis we are presently immersed in and suffer from, writesThe governing, but potentially fatally compromised and crisis-ridden ANC-led government, misrepresented the facts and truths about the real state of affairs over the past three decades in South Africa when President Cyril Ramaphosa delivered...

So resoundingly false was that speech that it was tantamount to rubbing salt on a festering wound. Right now, with less than a month to go before the polling day, we have the worst black poverty, unemployment and social inequalities in post-apartheid South Africa.South Africans need to be in the know if we want to create a prosperous future. News24 has kept the country informed for 25 years, and we're about to enter a new chapter of fearless journalism.

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