Opening of parliament speeches should be easy if the government did its work in the past year or so. Obviously ours has not done the work and President Cyril Ramaphosa will have sweaty palms as he directs his team to perepare for Thursday's big speech.

We can expect the meeting with his closest aides to work out like this: “I wonder why we have to run around every time the occasion comes around...

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