Opinion: SONA 2019
‘Internationalist thinkers‘ and there are many in our beloved country who, when juxtaposing seminal addresses or speeches delivered by our leaders in South Africa in any discipline, subconsciously – and I attribute this to the many centuries of subjugation we suffered under the yoke of oppression before the dawn of our democracy in 1994 – do so, by going beyond our continent.
It isn’t uncommon for us to opine that when the DA leader Maimane speaks, he mirrors or fashions himself as the former US President Barack Obama.
I was thus not surprised post 2019 June 20 SoNA when commentators and political parties represented in parliament, concluding that President Cyril Ramaphosa’s SoNA was a dream ala J.F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the USA. Some ventured even further and said the president’s address was nothing but a dream.
Centuries of
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