Faizel Patel – 12/02/2021
Political analyst Sanusha Naidu says President Cyril Ramaphosa’s state of the nation address lacked focus, tone and emphasis on key issues to drive the country forward.
Naidu was speaking to Radio Islam on Friday following Ramaphosa’s fifth State of the Nation address on Thursday.
Ramaphosa said he was hopeful that the relief measures implemented by government and a phased re-opening of the economy will help to kick-start the country’s economy that was left in crisis because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The president also spoke about corruption and state owned enterprises.
Naidu says the Sona was a speech she describes as “he tried.”
“Given the circumstances of where we are, given the fact that the COVID-19 had really threw us out of kilter in a number of ways both politically, economically and socially, I think the president tried to say that despite all of that we had made certain gains. But the challenge of the speech was that it spoke to things that I don’t think ordinary South Africans wanted to hear.”
Naidu says the speech was penned for board members and the boardroom.
“It wasn’t a speech for the state of the nation, it was a speech for the board of investors. To a large extent a speech like this should be simple, focused clear and it should actually have identified what is it that they are going to do.”
Naidu says much of what was presented by Ramaphosa precedes the COVID-19 pandemic adding that for her that is the dilemma and very disturbing.
Listen to the interview with Sanusha Naidu
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