OPINION | Dream Sona speech shouldn't be taken out of Africa for comparison
President Cyril Ramaphosa delivers his state of the nation address in Parliament, Cape Town on Thursday, June 20 2019."Internationalist thinkers", and there are many in our beloved country who, when juxtaposing seminal addresses or speeches delivered by our leaders do so by going beyond our continent.
It isn't uncommon for us to opine that when DA leader Mmusi Maimane speaks, he mirrors or fashions himself on former US president Barack Obama. If we did, we would know today that presidents the world over, set the tone of the direction which they intend their countries to take through dreams. We would have known that liberation movements leaders in Africa, drank from the dream well of knowledge from Mwalimu.
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