OPINION: Thursday night’s SONA was like a Rorschach test, with President Cyril Ramaphosa in the role of the nation’s avuncular psychiatrist, writes TheJaundicedEye.
Thursday night’s State of the Nation address was like a Rorschach test, with President Cyril Ramaphosa in the role of the nation’s avuncular psychiatrist. What was this SONA before our eyes? Was this water for our parched throats? Or was it just another politically conjured mirage?
In 1940, in the depths of Britain’s despair after Dunkirk, Winston Churchill stiffened spines with the promise that if everyone rallied to the cause, the world would “move forward into broad, sunlit uplands”. There were other parts to the dream. Few came with any semblance of a plan as to how they would be implemented.
Less ambitiously, the government - which would be both a “capable, ethical developmental state”, as well as an “entrepreneurial state” - will cut data costs and build digital hubs where inspiring youngsters would innovate. It would also build marketplaces where their old-fashioned parents can sell fresh produce.
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