President Zuma’s State of Nation Address

SOUTH AFRICA - Report 18 Jun 2014 by Iraj Abedian

As expected, President Zuma delivered the first State of Nation Address of his second term in office with sharp focus on the economy, carefully navigating all the tough and thorny issues. President Zuma pronounced that the “second phase of the revolution” has begun. In the African National Congress (ANC) lingo, this is a reference to a phase through which socio-economic liberation is expected to become a reality, much like the first phase (1994-2014) during which political and legal liberation emerged. With the exception of a couple of references to “radical economic transformation”, his sp...

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