By: Natasha Archary

Democratic Alliance (DA) leader, John Steenhuisen says President Cyril Ramaphosa’s 2024 State of the Nation Address (SONA) was so faIr removed from the reality which millions of South Africans are living.
“I think that was a very disappointing SONA, something clearly out of ‘Alice in Wonderland’, it’s not bounded in reality.
Certainly the South Africa that the President painted tonight (Thursday, 08 February) is not the South Africa that our citizens at home are living in.
With a 42% unemployment rate, 75 people murdered every single day, youth unemployment the highest in the world, loadshedding that’s worse than it’s been in 10-years, all the promises that we had about gender-based violence, fighting corruption, none of that’s come to fruition.
It (the President’s speech) was really long on virtues, but very, very short on delivery.
The reality is that this is not the SONA that people need to be worried about. The SONA that people should be concerned about and looking forward to, is the one that’s gonna be delivered in a few weeks time, after the election.
This was a laundry list of failed promises and projects that have been announced several times over already, without any benefit for the people of South Africa.
I think we (the DA) have a blueprint to fix South Africa, to deal with real reforms that can be driven through parliament, to be able to fix things like electricity, to be able to end cadre deployment not just talk about it, and to fight corruption.
The President had a lot to say about corruption tonight, but right across the hall from him in the Union Buildings, he’s got a Deputy President (Paul Mashatile) who’s mired in serious allegations of corruption.“
DA leader John Steenhuisen reacts to President Cyril Ramaphosa’s 2024 SONA
The President’s State Of The Nation Address was a laundry list of failed promises and projects that never came to fruition.
— John Steenhuisen MP (@jsteenhuisen) February 8, 2024
The challenges that we face are many but the DA has a plan to stop the decay and rescue South Africa. 🇿🇦 pic.twitter.com/ZD1U4ULk54
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