Response – 13th February 2026 – The State of the Nation Address by Mike Pothier
In President Ramaphosa’s long speech, just shy of two hours, certain words and phrases were repeated hundreds of times: ‘government will’; ‘we are going to’; ‘South Africa must’; ‘we need to’. All these point to the future, to things that have not happened yet but which, we are assured, are in the pipeline.