In his first letter to the nation in more than a month, President Cyril Ramaphosa was in a reflective mood about the decade ahead.
He said that the festive break had offered an opportunity to “reflect on our plans for the year ahead but also to think deeply about the challenges that confront us”.
The president argued that the most pressing challenge was the need to build a capable state.
“This is a task that does not capture the imagination of most people, yet it is essential to everything we want to achieve.”
His trip to Kimberley and other towns in the Northern Cape for the ANC’s 108th birthday celebrations had apparently brought home to him that the capacity of government needed to improve if people’s lives were to be bettered.
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