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Issue 99
| 27 February 2014 |
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“Our message has been loud and clear. Twenty years of freedom and democracy have changed the face of our country.”
Addressing the National Assembly in Cape Town on 20 February 2014 in response to the Debate on the State of the Nation Address, President Jacob Zuma said South Africa was a much better place to live in now than it was before 1994.
He admitted that more had to be done.
“The next five years will be about moving South Africa forward, building on the successes of the past 20 years and the past five years. We will focus yet again on the five priorities we had identified in 2009. These are education, health, the fight against crime, rural development and land reform as well as creating decent jobs. We will also continue to expand access to housing and basic services.
“We have achieved political freedom, now we must achieve economic freedom, and ensure that the ownership, management and control of the economy are deracialised further. We will also ensure that we build an inclusive economy whose growth will result in more jobs for our people, building on the current successes in job creation,” the President said. |
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WE HAVE A GOOD STORY TO TELL |
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The more we tell the good story of the success of our country, the more we realise how much more
we still have to share with the country and the world. |
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SOUTH AFRICA – A VALUED AND RESPECTED GLOBAL PLAYER |
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“Twenty years on South Africa is no longer a skunk of the world, a pariah state, but is now at the centre-stage as
a valuable and respected global player.” |
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South Africa’s freedom was a product of “our people’s struggles and international solidarity. Tata Oliver Tambo would be satisfied that the foreign policy we pursue today resonates with what he and many other heroes like Jonny Makhatini envisaged”.
Addressing the National Assembly on 18 February 2014, the Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Minister, Nkoana-Mashabane, said: “In the next five years and beyond, we must ceaselessly move South Africa forward!”
“The five decades of the independence of Africa have taken us closer to our goal of a better and united Africa. We are now on course towards Agenda 2063.
“A better world is also in the making. The countries of the South, including our own, are not spectators in this. The pessimistic stories making rounds in some international media about the impending crush of some of our economies have no foundation in fact. The movers and shakers in the global economy today are in the southern part of our world.
“The quest for a better world is a struggle that must continue,” the Minister said. |
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