EDITORIAL: Broken promises mean Cyril Ramaphosa will face even more scepticism
The president has failed to follow through on plans to fix the economy
As President Cyril Ramaphosa’s state of the nation address approaches, it’s appropriate to reflect on what has been said before to get a sense of the expectations we would attach to this address.
When Ramaphosa spoke 12 months ago, there was a sense that the country had reached a decisive moment. Ramaphoria was long a thing of the past and morale had suffered a big dent due to the Eskom power cuts late in 2019. The nation was bracing itself to lose its last remaining investment-grade rating from Moody's Investors Service. And that was before Covid-19 hit the economy and sent it into a recession that nobody listening to Ramaphosa in 2020 would have imagined possible...
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