Premium: Cyril’s SONA – Steenhuisen nails it: talk is cheap, money buys the whisky

John Steenhuisen is spot on by suggesting Cyril Ramaphosa said all the right things in his most important keynote of the year.
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It would be really difficult to top DA leader John Steenhuisen's assessment of last night's State of the Nation Address. So I won't try. Republished below, it's a more fruitful read than the well-intended verbiage delivered in the Cape Town City Hall last night by the SA president.

Steenhuisen is spot on by suggesting Cyril Ramaphosa said all the right things in his most important keynote of the year. Mostly by finally realising his party's economically insane policies must be ditched, and, belatedly admitting government works best when it is a facilitator, a referee – not when it tries to be the interventionist arbiter of economic success.

Where this newfound appreciation of reality fits into the ANC's oxymoronic Developmental State model is a mystery. Maybe Ramaphosa and Co are figuratively sobering up. Maybe they will realise that talk is cheap but national wealth, like the money to buy whisky, only comes from efficient execution.

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