SONA 2024: A hit or miss?

Critics say the final State of the Nation Address of the sixth administration presented no new ideas on how the government will deal with pressing economic and societal issues. Opposition parties say instead, President Cyril Ramaphosa used it as a platform to boast about the ANC-led government's successes since the advent of democracy in South Africa. While he did not make any grand announcements during his speech at the Cape Town City Hall, he updated citizens on measures he said the government was taking to move the country in the right direction. To look at this week's SONA and whether the President has his finger on the pulse of the nation Sebenzile Nkambule spoke to Sanusha Naidu, Senior Research Fellow at Institute for Global Dialogue...