By Marcus Moloko
President Cyril Ramaphosa is scheduled to deliver the State of the Nation Address (SONA) on Thursday evening in front of a joint sitting of Parliament — the second SONA of the multiparty Government of National Unity.
The address will serve as a progress report on the medium-term development plan, the guiding blueprint for the seventh administration.
Central to this will be Operation Vulindlela reforms, a joint initiative of the Presidency and National Treasury now entering its final phase.
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Having already delivered some reforms in energy and logistics, the programme is shifting focus to digitisation and the revitalisation of local government, a critical priority in an election year.
At the heart of the local government agenda is the ongoing review of the White Paper on Financing and Governance, aimed at stabilising municipalities plagued
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