A ‘not bold enough’ President Cyril Ramaphosa gave a ‘practical’ State of the Nation address, but it’s short on action, an expert says.
The 2020 State of the Nation address , the fourth that President Cyril Ramaphosa delivered within two years in office, had its hits and several misses, which political analysts attributed to the president having to keep his party colleagues happy. They say the Sona was better compared to the last three he delivered since 2018 when he assumed the presidency to finish Jacob Zuma’s last term of office.
“It wasn’t a great speech but a more practical speech. If he made it two years ago, it would have been better and a lot of progress would have been made. He spoke a great deal about the SOEs but was short on action,” said political analyst Ralph Mathekga. As a result of the ANC politics, there was no clear direction that the president gave about the SOEs. The ANC is not resolute about what is to be done about these entities, whether they should be privatised or restructured. The fact that senior members of the governing party made contradictory statements on the fate of South African Airways confirmed disagreement. Some were opposed to plans by the business rescue practitioners to cut some local flights or implement retrenchments.
He was unable to be upright, hence he handed the task of giving details about what was to be done to Finance Minister Tito Mboweni.
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