Where was Ramaphosa during those nine lost years? – FF Plus leader’s response to the SONA
14 February 2019
During the SONA, President Cyril Ramaphosa said that South Africa lost nine years in reference to former President Jacob Zuma's term of office. That raises the following question: where was President Ramaphosa during that time?
That is the question that the leader of the FF Plus, Dr Pieter Groenewald, posed to President Ramaphosa today in Parliament during his official response to the SONA. Below follows the rest of Dr Groenewald's speech:
In 2012, President Ramaphosa became the deputy president of the ANC. In 2014, he became the deputy president of South Africa. What did he do during those seven years of the nine lost years that cost South Africa and its tax payers so dearly? The President is an accessory to the losses suffered during those years, whether he wants to admit it or not.
At present, the greatest priority in South Africa is to stimulate the economy and create jobs. There is a simple way to do this by following two steps. Firstly, race must be taken out of the economic equation. Secondly, expropriation without compensation must be done away with. If the government follows through with expropriation without compensation, I can guarantee the President that the economy will not grow.