Africa-Press – South-Africa. As the country awaits to hear President Cyril Ramaphosa’s vision for the country, his spokesperson, Vincent Magwenya, said that the seventh administration was not a blank canvas.
As the country awaits to hear President Cyril Ramaphosa’s vision for the country, his spokesperson, Vincent Magwenya, said that the seventh administration was not a blank canvas.
Mangwenya said that the president’s plans over the next five years would be a continuation of work started during the sixth Parliament.
Ramaphosa had to contend with challenges pertaining to energy, logistics, as well as the COVID-19 pandemic during his first term in office.
His spokesperson said that government spent the last five years reforming and rebuilding the state.
“In the various budget votes speeches, even from speeches from ministers who hail from different parties, they built on the work of that was done in the sixth administration. We will take the criticism but we will always counter that criticism with facts as we know them, in terms of the work that was done in reforming and rebuilding the capabilities of the state.”
Meanwhile, Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly Annelie Lotriet described the mood in Parliament on Thursday as one filled with expectation and excitement.
She said that the country, 30 years after a new dispensation, was once again, through a coalition government at national level, entering into yet another dispensation.
“The question of viewers rights, the citizens of this country’s rights, the rights of all the members of Parliament, the rights of the executive, they all have to be balanced, and that’s why we have also amended the rules, because it’s not only for one party or two parties, everyone has a right to listen to the president and for the president to deliver his speech.”
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