Friday, 14 February 2020

No plan for Eskom: Ramaphosa's SONA speech

The speech, delivered by president Ramaphosa in the National Assembly on Thursday evening, left much to be desired. The much anticipated speech, which came after a 2 hour long disruption by EFF hooligans, was supposed to address the Eskom concern but it did not satisfy.

In a News24 article with headline No plan for Eskom: Parties react to Ramaphosa's SONA speech by Sesona Ngqakamba reported on the responses by some opposition parties:

The DA says President Cyril Ramaphosa's State of the Nation Address showed that he had chosen the ANC over South Africa and saving the country from economic disaster.  

DA interim leader John Steenhuisen said that Eskom remained the biggest threat to South Africa and that the emergency measures announced by the president were simply confirming what was already known: "Eskom is dead."

"The ANC's insistence on trying to resurrect it by raiding the pensions of government employees is madness. There is no 'financially sustainable' way to throw a quarter of a trillion rand of pension savings down a hole that has no bottom," he said.

African Christian Democratic Party leader Kenneth Meshoe said the party would oppose any motion that the money of government employees be used to bail out cash-strapped Eskom.

Solidarity's Dirk Hermann said they welcomed the drastic steps to decentralise power generation as announced by Ramaphosa, but added that there was no plan to address Eskom's "huge debt problem".

"We foresee a huge clash between pension fund members and government, and Solidarity will be at the forefront of this fight," he said. 

The minority group representatives who still proclaim their resistance to a majority ANC that does what it wants, pays no lip service. The ULA has a solution but it is up to you and me if we want it. Register your mandate at www.ulacongress.com and take the first step towards saving our economy.

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