A downpour in Cape Town did little to dampen the spirits of those gathered for President Jacob Zuma’s State of the Nation address on Wednesday.
The DA on Tuesday urged President Jacob Zuma to encourage viable industrial activity to create jobs as a way out of the country’s economic recession.
President Jacob Zuma’s maiden State of the Nation address is likely to see him make modest promises of better delivery, analysts say.
Instead of spouting more platitudes, perhaps Kgalema Motlanthe could spit it straight in his State of the Nation address.
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/ 9 February 2009
Deputy President Baleka Mbete admitted on Monday that "more still needs to be done and we can do better when we work together".
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/ 6 February 2009
President’s first State of the Nation speech walked a tightrope between appeasing the new, more leftist ANC and acknowledging the work done by Mbeki.
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/ 6 February 2009
President Kgalema Motlanthe said on Friday during his State of the Nation address that the global economic meltdown does pose dangers.
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/ 6 February 2009
As President Kgalema Motlanthe addresses the nation in his first, and possibly last, State of the Nation address, he will be walking a tightrope.
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/ 5 February 2009
President Kgalema Motlanthe faces an awkward time on Friday as he delivers a State of the Nation address after only five months in office.
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/ 2 February 1990
According to the NP source Pik Botha was ”terrified of a Rubicon repeat” and wanted Nelson Mandela to be released on Monday January 29.