Durban - When President Cyril Ramaphosa delivers his first State of the Nation Address as a democratically-elected president on Thursday in Parliament, he will do so against a backdrop of a nation seeking economic relief after the country’s economy contracted by 3.2 percent in the first quarter of 2019.
“Poverty levels rose in 2015, unemployment has gone up and inequality has persisted. For several years, our economy has not grown at the pace needed to create enough jobs so that we can lift our people out of poverty,” Ramaphosa said as he delivered his first SONA, a day after replacing Jacob Zuma as president.
Now the hard task for Ramaphosa is to deliver to almost 27.3 percent of the population who are unemployed. South Africans will be yearning to hear of tangible programmes and projects being put in place to ensure that close to 300 000 of them get a job annually. Another of Ramaphosa’s high profile focus areas in February was to intervene decisively in stabilising and revitalising State Owned Enterprises and ridding them of corruption by turning the tide on corruption in the SOEs.
He inherited a hot potatoe from the Zupta administration and Magashule is making sure that things stay that way, if not worse.
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