TOM EATON | Where to start? Ramaphosa’s speech writers have their work cut out

Spare us a Sona of slogans and insipid clichés. Just admit the serious issues at hand and act on them

31 January 2022 - 19:08

In 10 days, Cyril Ramaphosa will deliver his state of the nation address, which means that even now his writers are hard at work crafting a speech that doesn’t draw too much attention to the fact that it’s being delivered in Cape Town’s city hall because parliament got set on fire...

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