Zuma has a dig at the EFF in his Grand Parade address
The president hammered home his Sona message about ‘radical economic transformation’, to a cheering crowd
President Jacob Zuma rushed over to Grand Parade in Cape Town after an eventful state of the nation address in Parliament on Thursday evening, where he declared 2017 the year of "radical economic transformation". The president attended an ANC gathering alongside members of the party’s national executive committee and leaders of the party’s Western Cape provincial structures. Other than points of order from opposition parties and some ANC MPs, which chewed up an hour-and-a-half of the time allotted to Sona, the address provided little in the way of new developments in government policy or its implementation. True to supporters’ expectations, Zuma then appeared before a crowd of thousands of ANC supporters, where he stressed the importance of transforming the South African economy. "The critical message that we have discussed in leadership and agreed is that we need to change the economy of this country radically. We, the blacks, are a majority, but we have very little to do with the ...
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