Although the infrastructure projects mentioned by President Zuma in his State of the Nation Address are welcome, there are question marks over how we are going to find an additional R330 billion per year to pay for them. If the President had the courage to take on his alliance partners, he would have announced plans to cut the public sector wage bill to pay for the new infrastructure he proposed.
South Africans got a speech designed to put a positive gloss on government performance and appease the governing party’s alliance partners ahead of the Mangaung elective conference in December. As a result, the President appeared out of touch with reality.
DA MP Manny De Freitas said that the President appears to be oblivious to the ineffeciency and corruption that appears to be prevalent within the Home Affairs department.
“The President needed to set out a bold vision for South Africa with an honest assessment of the state of our nation,” Instead he used the opportunity to engage in a Public Relations exercise designed to keep his alliance partners on his side ahead of Mangaung.
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