RIP MPL Ncediwe Nobevu-Booi: The Legislature community lost a dear & valued MPL, colleague and friend; MPL Ncediwe Faith Nobevu-Booi tragically passed away after being involved in a vehicle accident over the weekend. May her soul rest in peace.
President #Ramaphosa: We set these ambitious goals not despite the severe difficulties of the present, but because of them. We set these goals so that the decisions we take now are bolder and we act with greater urgency.
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President #Ramaphosa: Let us make these commitments now – to ourselves and to each other – knowing that they will stretch our resources and capabilities, but understanding that if we achieve these five goals, we will have fundamentally transformed our society. #SONA2019 🇿🇦
President #Ramaphosa: To ensure that our efforts are directed, I am suggesting that, within the priorities of this administration, we agree on five fundamental goals for the next decade. #SONA2019 🇿🇦
President #Ramaphosa: Let is agree that within the next 10 years we will have made progress in tackling poverty, inequality and unemployment. #SONA2019 🇿🇦
President #Ramaphosa: We need to focus on those actions that will have the greatest impact, actions that will catalyse faster movement forward, both in the immediate term and over the next 10 years.
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President #Ramaphosa: We have heard you, and many others.
Sinizwile. Hi twile. To zwi pfa. Re itlwile.
Through the elections held in May, you provided all of us with a clear mandate for growth and renewal. #SONA2019 🇿🇦
President #Ramaphosa: Working together, we have laid a firm foundation on which we can build a country
in which all may know peace and comfort and contentment. #SONA2019 🇿🇦
President #Ramaphosa: More than a century after that grave injustice, we are called upon to forge a South Africa where no person will be slave or pariah, only free and equal and respected.
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President #Ramaphosa: Our people suffered gravely and endured untold hardships as a result of the implementation of the Natives Land Act. The effect of that law are still present with us.
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President #Ramaphosa: We recall the words of Sol Plaatje on that tragic event, when he said:
“Awakening on Friday morning, June 20, 1913, the South African native found himself, not actually a slave, but a pariah in the land of his birth.”
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President #Ramaphosa: We gather here at the start of the 6th Democratic Parliament, 106 years to the day after the Natives Land Act – one of the most devastating acts of dispossession, pain and humiliation – came into force.
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