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Panellists Lizeka Tandwa, M&G political editor; Sarah Smit, M&G economics editor; Dr Ongama Mtimka, history and politics studies lecturer at Nelson Mandela University; Sanusha Naidoo, foreign policy and political analyst, and Tshidi Madia, Eyewitness News politics associate editor. (Photo: David Harrison)
2024 POST SONA CRITICAL THINKING FORUM

The 2024 Post-Sona Critical Thinking Forum

Panellists had little confidence in President Ramaphosa’s address

  • Nabeel Allie
7 min read
President Cyril Ramaphosa. (Photo by Michele Spatari/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
ACCOUNTABILITY

Sona 2022: Ramaphosa must make ‘decisive statements’ — opposition parties

Talk is over, the country needs action says Chief Zwelivelile Mandla Mandela ahead of the State of the Nation address

  • Eunice Masson
2 min read
The City Hall is to be used by Parliament for SONA on January 31, 2022 in Cape Town, South Africa. The City of Cape Town made the building available following the devastating Parliament fire earlier this month. (Photo by Brenton Geach/Gallo Images via Getty Images)
2022 SONA

Despite last month’s fire at parliament, officials ‘confident’ about incident-free Sona at new venue

An estimated R4-million has been budgeted for this year’s event, up sharply from R208 000 in 2021

  • Eunice Masson
3 min read
The 2022 State of the Nation address (Sona) will be hosted at the Cape Town City Hall, where former president Nelson Mandela addressed the nation for the first time after his release from prison in 1990, parliament announced on Friday. (Photo by Charlie Shoemaker/Getty Images)
CAPE TOWN CITY HALL

State of the Nation address to be held in historical Cape Town City Hall

The City Hall was chosen for its technical infrastructure and for being the building from which Nelson Mandela gave his address when he was freed and when he was elected president

  • Eunice Masson
2 min read