Cyril Ramaphosa’s maiden State of the Nation address. A must read.
You can watch Cyril Ramaphosa’s debut State of the Nation address live here from 7pm with updates and the full speech to follow.
You can watch Cyril Ramaphosa’s debut State of the Nation address live here from 7pm with updates and the full speech to follow.
Tomorrow Zuma hosts a pre-State of the Nation luncheon with SA’s business leaders. It is the ideal opportunity to prepare them for Gordhan’s exit. Or allay their fears on the subject.
If President Zuma gets his hands on the National Treasury, it is “game over” for South Africa, Save SA leader Sipho Pityana said in Cape Town on Thursday.
If Zuma wants to build on the collaborative momentum, he must get off his hands. A continued delay tells us much more than anything he might say next Thursday.
William Haddad thinks SA business needs to stand up and educate or else there’s no veering from the path to Zimbabwe, Cuba, Venezuela, Brazil and North Korea.
As the State of the Nation captured attention of thousands of television viewers, so Donwald Pressly says it was down to some quite brilliant theatre.
Over the past few years, the annual State of the Nation address has been a veritable feast for social media. SONA2016 was no different.
EFF president Julius Malema delivered what he called the “real” State of the Nation Address outside Parliament, competing with President Jacob Zuma’s voice booming through speakers on the precinct.
“Zupta” is a reference to Zuma’s close links with the influential Gupta family who secured an interdict against the EFF this week.
Cope leader Mosiuoa Lekota says president Zuma admitted to the nation in the Constitutional Court that he had broken his oath of office.