Happening now: President Cyril Ramaphosa has taken to the podium to deliver the #SONA2021 before a hybrid sitting.

#SONA2021 | Ramaphosa briefly commemorates the release of the late former president Nelson Mandela from the Victor Verster Prison in Cape Town in 1990.

'It was clear that freedom was tangible.'
#SONA2021 | Ramaphosa likens the country's resilience to that of the fynboos.

"We have risen time and time again from the depths of darkness to herald a new day."
#SONA2021 | Ramaphosa hails the efforts of front liners and essential workers amid the raging coronavirus pandemic. We have made mistakes but we have also stood together.

"It is a story of solidarity and compassion."
#SONA2021 | Ramaphosa: This year is about change, progress and rebirth.
#SONA2021 | Ramaphosa says the year's plan will centre on four pillars:

-Defeat the Covid-19 pandemic
-Accelerate economic recovery
-Job creation and ensure inclusive growth
-Strengthen fight against corruption
#SONA2021 | Ramaphosa speaks on the vaccine developments, lamenting the setback suffered recently.
It should not delay the rollout but it will impact the choice and manner of rollout.
#SONA2021 | Ramaphosa: Alternatively, we have secured 9 million Johnson and Johnson doses - 80 000 of which will arrive next week.
#SONA2021 | Ramaphosa: We will overcome and we will rise. But we must also also overcome poverty and inequality.
#SONA2021 | Ramaphosa: This time last year, we could have never been prepared for what was to come. As a result, we had to alter plans and budgets based on the crises.
#SONA2021 | Ramaphosa: This time last year, we could have never been prepared for what was to come. As a result, we had to alter plans and budgets based on the crises.
#SONA2021 | Ramaphosa says he will give feedback on progress made on the economic recovery and reconstruction plan.

On infrastructure:
-headway has been in energy and telecomms infrastructure
-we have launched 2 major human settlement projects
#SONA2021 | Ramaphosa: "This evening we stand here not to make promises but to report on the process of the recovery plan."

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MISREPRESENTED CONTEXT

1. I am indeed disgusted with attempts to misrepresent and take out of context what I wrote on my blog yesterday.


2. Those who did that highlighted only one part of paragraph 12 which read: “Muslims have a right to be angry and to kill millions of French people for the massacres of the past.”

3. They stopped there and implied that I am promoting the massacre of the French.

4.If they had read d posting in its entirety & especially the subsequent sentence which read: “But by & large the Muslims hv not applied the “eye for an eye” law. Muslims don’t. The French shouldn’t. Instead the French should teach their people to respect other people’s feelings

5. Because of the spin and out of context presentation by those that picked up my posting, reports were made against me and I am accused of promoting violence etc… on Facebook and Twitter.

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