EFF STATEMENT ON THE STATE OF THE NATION ADDRESS: Zuma told lies and claimed easy victories!
14 February 2014
Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) notes the State of the Nation Address (SONA) delivered in the joint sitting of the National Assembly and National Council of Provinces in Cape Town yesterday. Like all previous State of Nation Address, the 2014 one basically told many lies and claimed easy victories.
Importantly, there was no clarity in the entire SONA of whether Mr. Zuma was giving account of the successes from 1994 or from 2009 when he assumed office as President of the Republic. This is important to flag because there are so many contradictions and lies by omissions that were committed in the 2014 SONA. For the entire period where Mr. Zuma claimed easy victories, the EFF has the following observations to make:
1) The post 1994 government has dismally failed to bring unemployment below 20% and has still not changed the patterns of economic growth because they believe through the neo-liberal National Development Plan that pursue growth first and the rest shall follow.
2) The increase of jobs in South Africa from 11 million to 14 million is not a victory or creation of the post 1994 government, such happened because from 1994, the population has grown from 40 million people to 52 million people in 2014.