President Ramaphosa delivers the 2024 State of the Nation Address
President Ramaphosa delivers the 2024 State of the Nation Address
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Where is EFF?
The president looks ill.
By the way,we ONLY LIVE ☝️>UNO BABY!!!!!!!!!! SO LIVE FOR THE momento!!🤗🤗🤗
#Not color theme,But HATS/CLUTCHES/JEWELRY/EARINGS
It will be nice if THE SONAs had a DRESS THEME FOR ONLY!!, ONLY LADIES.
The LADY IN WHITE WITH A up🤘do FEATHER HAT has DRESSED 👗🪶 for the MOMENTÓ, that is so POSSHHH
Reconciliation.
Please change ramaphosa why is he not helping me I have a solution for our energy problems
Down to the ANC, DOWN to 23% of the vote in May 2024
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
The bill also cited the ANC government’s “substantially mismanaging” state resources and its often ineffective delivery of public services, “threatening the South African people and the South African economy…”
Even other country's can see what is happening here in South Africa
The "dislike" option of this video is "disabled by the owner". SABC such ANC lapdog.
They even clapped for him to stand in front of them, and the whole country😢 just to lie
ESKOM IMPLEMENTS
STAGE 6 BLACK OUTS
RAMAPHOSA ANC 100 % RESPONSIBLE FOR ESKOM BLACK OUTS
ANC incompetent thieves
Is it right to change me simple because my wipers r not working and also those who change me their left light is not functioning
Metro police changed me simple because my car wipers were not working…but I also told them that the car that they were driving 1 light was not functioning…and they stated to beat me💔
All police vehicles r not compliant and and and I'm thinking to open my own department that will arrest all government cars that r not complient
I'm tired of this circus with no change whatsoever, it's not a SONA it's a SSONA a sad state of the nation's affairs
South Africa
Ramaphosa a modern-day Nero playing his fiddle as he watches Rome burn
Daily Investor • 9 February 2024

Lew Geffen Sotheby’s International Realty CEO Yael Geffen said if the president had worn a toga instead of an expensive suit, he’d be a 21st-century Nero playing his fiddle as he watched Rome burn.
Geffen was referring to President Cyril Ramaphosa’s State of the Nation Address in the Cape Town City Hall on Thursday night.
In his speech, Ramaphosa sang the government’s praises for fighting state capture, improving infrastructure, resolving load-shedding, and improving the economy.
These claims drew sharp criticism from opposition parties who argued that the President was living in an alternative reality.
They highlighted that under Ramaphosa, road and rail infrastructure collapsed, load-shedding intensified, and people got poorer.
Unemployment reached all-time highs, the economy is showing virtually no growth, and the country’s finances are in a dismal state.
None of the promises made by President Cyril Ramaphosa in his last five SONA speeches have ever been kept.
“Not a single piece of pragmatic, workable legislation has been tabled at the National Assembly to realise Ramaphosa’s ‘New Dawn’,” he said.
“The South African economy has flatlined, there are no new jobs, corruption is worse than it has ever been, crime is spiralling out of control, and millions of our children are starving to death.”
He added that embracing the National Health Insurance (NHI) Bill, Ramaphosa is taking a wrecking ball to the country’s public health system.
“It is driving skilled doctors and medical personnel from our country and killing South Africa’s status as a world leader in healthcare innovation,” he said.
“We can’t push the NHI through parliament when the government cannot afford to employ and place our existing graduate doctors.”
He added that all of President Ramaphosa’s populist posturing and policy proposals points to a president who is completely out of touch with ordinary South Africans.
“The reality is that none of these offerings are workable in the financial framework of a 6% budget deficit,” he said.
Ramaphosa is like Nero watching Rome burn
Lew Geffen Sotheby’s International Realty CEO Yael Geffen
Yael Geffen likened Ramaphosa to a modern-day Nero in a suit, playing his fiddle as he watched Rome burn.
“Astonishingly, Ramaphosa had the gall to once again stand in front of the nation for this annual speech and repeat the mantra that boils down to ‘yay for the government’,” she said.
She slated Ramaphosa’s claim that the government is delivering more than ever before and its “fantastic plan to fix what everyone else has broken”.
“Interest rate remains at its highest point in 14 years, food inflation is out of control, electricity and fuel costs are crippling consumers, and household debt is spiralling,” Geffen said.
“Moreover, everything Ramaphosa promised to fix this year is the same critical issues he promised to address in last year’s SONA and in the one before that.”
“If the Presidency had replayed last year’s speech on 8 February this year, I don’t think anyone would have noticed.”
Geffen further took exception to Ramaphosa claiming that R1.5 trillion in “new investment commitments” had been raised through five South African Investment Conferences.
The President added that more than R500 billion of these pledged investments had already flowed into the economy.
“If you ask anyone on the street whether they’ve felt that funds boost, they’d say no,” she said, adding that the country continues to teeter on the edge of a financial meltdown.
“Financial pressure isn’t just an economic stressor. It’s a key factor in domestic violence trends and contributes to this country’s horrifically high gender-based violence statistics.”
“With policies that have placed the country in such a precarious economic position, the government has created a socio-economic crisis, with women on the losing end.”
Geffen added that in 2023, property transactions dropped by 100,000 compared to 2022. A large percentage of those sales were financially motivated.
Geffen said this year’s SONA – with its excess of promises and shortage of tangible solutions – reinforces that South Africa’s economic salvation lies in the hands of its people.
“The president was right in saying that we should remember that it’s up to us – not anyone else – to determine the future of South Africa. I say, challenge accepted.
60 ships down to 12 at Durban harbour? The other 48 ships sailed back as they couldn't wait any more.
Common Clown 🙈🙈🙈🤡🤡🤡
He and the ANC SPINLESS MOTH%%R F %%*NG BULLSHITERS😢
Lies… Lies.. and more lies.. Useless, Spineless and Absolute Unconsciousness may you reap what you sow 🙏 Not everyone has an IQ of 70
The ordasity of the man boasting about how they are fixing what the broke.
all these promises again but this year is different, the Anc serving this country at the moment lost the value of what the Party use to be when it was mandela era, disgrace Mandela is the true hero not the new ANC
Listened to Steenhuisen's
blueprint speech and Sona
speech of the president.
Came to the following conclution
Presdets speech ,worldclass leader
Compassionate,respect for human dignity,thourough,stick to the message,no personal attacks,mentioned accomplishments,challenges and plans for the future.
Steenhuisens speech,like a school prefect.
Did not stick to the point,
personal attacks,lack of substance,no clear message.
😁That's it! I'm going to Australia!
We South Africans are in serious disgusting situations, everything is wrong. People are grappling without Power & Water, absolute Pathetic situations. Promises have been made as a plot & ploy to destroy US STRATEGICALLY!!!!
Sies,Steenhuisen you just showed how
little compassion you have
for people of colour.Sitting
there with folded arms,while others applauded the attemps made by the goverment to
stop the suffering of the
palestinian people.And I already know what your answer is going to be.But nothing can be compared to whats happening in Gaza now.
Ramaphosa(Zuma, Malema) all modern-day Nero's playing their fiddles as they watch Rome burn.
Yea man you felt on your head….that would be kind !
what opportunities is Ramaphosa talking about 🤔🤔 should he be reminded that there are no jobs for the youth or is he talking about the R350 that doesn't even last for 5 days all I'm saying is vote right this coming elections
What a waste of precious time and money, all a joke. A pity could not watch it as we had load shedding most of the day.
Our government failing us each and every chance the get am disappointed shem ANC plz change way of doing thing try to prioritize our needs instead of prioritizing you and ur needs remember why are sitting where you sitting now
We are so far from a so called rainbow nation ,nothing was mentioned about coulerd or Indian people i am not even mentioned white people how pathetic
MK and EFF this year 🔥 sorry ANC
Still blaming apartheid but you 30 years in democracy ANC
Sona is a waste of time because theres no change😢😢
🙄🙄🙄🙄
Viva anc
Viva anc viva ❤