SAA is undeserving of any more public financing

“We cannot continue along this path. Nor can we afford to stand still,” President Cyril Ramaphosa warned on February 13. He was delivering the state of the nation address, following his election the previous year on the promise of economic rejuvenation. In this address, at the beginning of the first year of his tenure as elected president, Ramaphosa was cautioning the country that his presidency might not actually deliver economic revival.