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Ramaphosa’s pledge to improve tech and telecoms is laudable. Let’s hope the ‘Cyril Spring’ isn’t a false start
Last Wednesday, about an hour before the midnight deadline for Jacob Zuma to resign as president or face a motion of no confidence, his resignation flung SA into wild celebration and, hopefully, back to economic viability. Two days later, President Cyril Ramaphosa delivered his maiden state of the nation address, looking and behaving like the statesman we have truly missed in our president. And in a stirring speech that was big on possibilities and a restoration of our dignity but arguably short on detail, he noted the importance of the technology and digital industries. Ramaphosa said government will "establish a digital industrial revolution commission ... to ensure that our country is in a position to seize the opportunities and manage the challenges of rapid advances in information and communication technology ... "Our prosperity as a nation depends on our ability to take full advantage of rapid technological change. This means that we urgently need to develop our capabilities i...
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