President Cyril Ramaphosa's State of the Nation address focused on honoring fallen soldiers in the DRC and highlighting the importance of the Freedom Charter. However, the speech was criticized for its lack of concrete plans to address pressing issues such as military funding and social inequality.
Friday 07 February 2025 - 05:26amPresident Cyril Ramaphosa delivers the State of the Nation Address. GCISHe spoke for just under an hour – a speech of about 7000 words. But what was most important about President Cyril Ramaphosa ’s State of the Nation address was not what he said. It was what he did not say.
For this latest battle there was no money to get the Rooivalks in the air and no way of getting them to the DRC and over the skies of Goma. And so, our soldiers, and those who joined them from the Southern African Development Community, were humbled. But what he didn’t say was that he, as their commander-in-chief, sent them to war without the resources they needed to get the job done.Seventy years ago, South Africans of different races came together on a dusty soccer field in Kliptown and adopted the Freedom Charter.
It is a stark contrast to the hatred that defines the relationship between so many Jews and Palestinians in the Middle East or Hutus and Tutsis in the DRC. What he did not say was those words were more likely directed at Donald Trump than the ordinary South African.
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