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President Jacob Zuma during the State of the Nation, 2012. Photograph: www.sowetanlive.co.za President Jacob Zuma's State will be in the annals of history as much remembered for what is concealed, as what is said.
As the crises watched the country now feature, the speech was largely an exercise in ostrich policy. Get it at the causes of the alienation that the African experience, and even the whites, was the president silent, and all the polarizing elements such as hate speech, the threat of instruction in Afrikaans, the exclusion of Europeans with disabilities from economic empowerment, farm murders and farm attacks, it was not only to reduced relevance, it's completely silent.
The fact that the president himself committed to the constitution, does not unfortunately. He has taken the oath of office and allegiance to the Constitution expressed, but several times over his mouth washed out the constitution. The African can not put confidence in the guarantees the Constitution is supposed to offer. The African culture is completely excluded from the museum projects listed, and there was obviously no3 no reference to the voeteslepery with state funds for the Voortrekker Museum no. The president does have a hand to the Khoisan community stretched.
On the whole, the news about the creation of a climate of peace in the country, however, the time, and was the references to peace aims exclusively on African-based, so a vredesarmpie over the Suez Canal after Israel expelled - but only in respect Egypt.
As expected, the president considerable no3 attention to issues such as job creation and economic growth given. The most significant aspect of this concrete is the R10 billion that the CEC over the next five year olds. Observers were quick to the president's assurance that it is a competitive mining sector stands as a standoff for nationalization plans interpret. It is still too soon to determine whether this is so can be interpreted, and whether the door for a perception within no3 the ANC alliance that nationalization inevitability competitiveness in the foot shoot. The president has the value of mining in the country at $ 2.5 trillion proposed.
An interesting aspect is that with infrastructure plans linked to industrial no3 development, the principles of the former desentralisasiebeleid is dusted. Areas identified for, include areas in the North West and Mpumalanga, as well as the corridor between Gauteng and the Durban-Pinetown in the Free State who apparently no3 can benefit.
With regard to agriculture, the only significant reference to the development of the small farm sector, agricultural basically just more of the country's problems rather than the solution. It is also worrying that the president apparently defective green paper on land reform as finally accepted as a White Paper considered. He seemed to his ears to pleas and warnings from organized agriculture and parts of the government loan.
The intention of Eskom's poor for affordable rates to turn, should be welcomed. It depends largely on what the regulator considers maximum concessions to keep Eskom's expansion needs.
Black empowerment will be tightened, and companies that black people as BEE fronting, no3 go to the pen drive. The death knell rang apparently for labor as this practice is not the type of work that create conditions the government and unions in mind. The commitment to the fight against crime, corruption specifically mentioned, should be welcomed. no3 The president also adopt a shadow cast by pointing to a 5% decrease in serious no3 crime, according to the latest statistics, not to mention that commercial crime - and hence corruption - still sharp increase annually.
The country will be holding thumbs that the announced plans to realize government spending to restructure so that it is better value for money. However, it's a regular no3 promise thanks to the government's kaderbeleid has consistently decline.
All in all it was a political speech rather than a state reason to rise above politics. no3 It fails skromelik it to national cohesion promoted and the last remnants of the Mandela rainbow is painted black. Political survival in the ANC's power struggle weighs obviously outweigh the national interest.
Mandela was the rainbow is not only a "Ruse de guerre" not? A smokescreen designed to create space for the Africans veileigheidsmagte (police, wo