South African president Cyril Ramaphosa delivering the 2022 state of the nation address.
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Reviving the capacity of the state is also crucial to shoring up support for democracy in the long term.
South Afriocan President Cyril Ramaphosa delivering his third state of the nation address.
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Ramaphosa offered five simple yet bold goals for the next ten years that cut across the social and economic structural constraints that inhibit South Africa’s potential.
South Africa’s International Relations and Cooperation minister, Lindiwe Sisulu (second left) with ministers from Brazil and India.
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Three urgent issues at the interplay of foreign and domestic affairs will be of strategic long-term importance to South Africa and Africa.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa during his 2019 State of the Nation Address.
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Many of the crime prevention strategies South African President Cyril Ramaphosa proposed have been tried, with few positive results.
President Jacob Zuma delivers his State of the Nation Address (SONA).
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South Africa’s President, Jacob Zuma, promised radical economic transformation in his 2017 state of the nation address. A lot of what he said in support of this promise is alternative facts.
President Jacob Zuma’s fleeting mention of universities in his speech was merely political expediency.
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There was nothing in President Zuma’s speech to suggest that he’d really listened to people’s concerns about higher education - nor to suggest that any solutions will be forthcoming.
President Jacob Zuma’s State of the Nation address didn’t suggest any real urgency or energy.
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With South African local government elections coming up later in 2016, Jacob Zuma and his governing ANC must ensure that citizens still look to them as a party of hope.
South Africa’s strategic direction around health policy has deteriorated to almost nothing.
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President Jacob Zuma failed to focus on reforms that fix any of the health care in South Africa in the next five years.
The real answer to what the economy might look like in 30-50 years is that none of us really know.
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As Australia leaves the old economy behind, the word we must embrace for the new is “nimble”.
I used to rule the world…
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The coalition has presided over a muddled and reactionary foreign policy, and has done little to strengthen Britain’s independent voice in the world.
No laughing matter. Workers with benefits.
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The problems with benefits lie outside the system, while more and more of us are being dragged into its orbit.
The picture’s still unclear on migration.
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Whoever wins the election, there are serious questions to answer on immigration.
Funding, steady as she goes.
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Science and research were not at the front of the political debate in 2010. So how has science funding fared under the coalition government?
Not an economic policy dream team.
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The UK’s economic performance can be spun in different ways. Here, the Coalition’s economic record is broken down.
Are we really?
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Five years of Coalition government later, it is clear that the poorest have paid most dearly as a result of various tax and benefit changes.
Michael Gove’s legacy is still an uncertain one.
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The shock therapy of changes in schools and universities may feel like a seismic shift. But it’s the direction we were already travelling in.
The coalition got off to a rocky start on crime with the 2011 riots.
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The government faced civil unrest almost as soon as it came to office. Then it decided to cause some disruption of its own.
Is it really the end of the affair?
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After the 2010 election, the coalition promptly ordered a huge review of the EU. Then it spent years ignoring the findings.
Take a moment.
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As we go into the 2015 election what kind of NHS will a new government inherit?