“There’s a new plan called dreams; the president has got no privilege of dreaming. Me and you can dream,” said Malema.
Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema says president Cyril Ramaphosa has no time to dream.
This comes after Ramaphosa delivered the State of the Nation Address (SoNA) yesterday in parliament.
“There’s a new plan called dreams; the president has got no privilege of dreaming. Me and you can dream,” said Malema.
“25 years into gorvenment and youre still dreaming? We dreamed in the 80’s, we dreamed in the 70’s we dreamed of a society where we are all equal there’s jobs, there’s houses and there’s services for everybody.
“All of this was mapped out by generations before us, why dream? For what?”
Ramaphosa announced that the Special Investigating Unit’s Special Tribunal would start its work in the coming months.
The Special Tribunal, made up of eight judges, would fast-track civil claims brought to it by the Special Investigating Unit (SIU).
DA leader Mmusi Maimane has described Ramaphosa’s speech as “a state of no action and containing a lot of empty promises”.
“It was all based on a dream of really no tangible plans on how we will get out of this trouble in the next five years. We should have seen more reforms and none were forthcoming,” said Maimane.
Freedom Front Plus leader Peter Groenewald rejected Ramaphosa’s speech on the stance that government has taken to expropriate land without compensation.
“What he actually said tonight is that they are going to continue with expropriation without compensation. It is quite clear and we reject that, and we say that is going to be detrimental to the economic growth of South Africa,” said Groenewald.
He added: “He has got a nice dream but unfortunately when he wakes up he will find out he’s living in a nightmare. He said quite a lot of things, it’s a wish list and of course everybody would like to have that, we want to know how he is he going to do it.”
Within the next 10 years, Ramaphosa will ensure that no South African goes to bed hungry.
Economist Thabi Leoka said Ramaphosa’s speech lacked detail on plans to revitalise the economy and create jobs.
“He talks about growing the economy but not really how and especially which sectors. He prioritises job creation and there need to be more details as to how we’re going to create these jobs that we require.”