#SONA2019 – ‘I Have a Dream’

Lucas Ledwaba, Riyaz Patel & Charles Molele

One cannot help but feel that President Cyril Ramaphosa’s State on the Nation Address SONA was uninspiring, unconvincing and his wooliest yet.

There was scant detail in this speech and no commitment to deeply reflect on the state of the nation and how it is that we have arrived in these troubled, captured and unequal times.

Exhortation is a poor substitute for sober analysis, and an honest account of our failures.

Let’s start with the land question.

Ramaphosa began his address by reminding the nation that “We gather