NEW YEAR MESSAGE BY PRESIDENT JACOB ZUMA
Fellow South Africans
We have come to an end of a very eventful and productive year, which we had dedicated to our leader, the late Oliver Reginald Tambo.
The improvement of the quality of life of our people, especially the poor and the working class, remains a key priority of government, as we work to achieve the type of society that OR Tambo fought for.
In pursuit of this mission, significant strides were made in 2017, in fighting poverty, inequality and unemployment.
Despite serious challenges on the economic front, together we made substantial progress in providing basic services such as electricity, housing, roads, water and sanitation, health care, social grants as well as accessible education.