
SONA 2024: Living in a Ramaverse, the President Attempts to Rewrite the History of a Struggling Nation
Listening to President Ramaphosa’s State of the Nation Address (SoNA) this evening, South Africans would be forgiven for thinking they live in a different country. SoNA was a political sleight of hand, where Ramaphosa appropriated the progress of the ruling party made under Presidents Mandela and Mbeki while distancing himself from its failures and corruption during President Zuma’s State Capture era.