SONA 2025: Unconvincing, uninspiring and more of the same hollow promises l Image: Flickr_GovZA SONA 2025:Unconvincing, uninspiring and more of the same hollow promises President Ramaphosa’s SONA 2025 must go down as one of the longest hot air and uninspiring speeches we ha... ACCOUNTABILITY CORRUPTION PARLIAMENT SONA Feb 7, 2025
SONA So What: OUTA suggests disengaging from SONA 2024 l Image: OUTA SONA So What: OUTA suggests disengaging from SONA 2024 The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA) has decided to ignore this year’s State of the Nation Address (SONA) by President Ramapho... ACCOUNTABILITY PARLIAMENT SONA Feb 6, 2024
Another disappointing SONA of empty promises and desperation Another disappointing SONA of empty promises and desperation The President’s State of the Nation Address failed to inspire confidence. He acknowledged many of the problems but did not offer believable... ELECTRICITY ESKOM GOVERNANCE PARLIAMENT SONA STATE CAPTURE Feb 10, 2023
This year’s SONA cannot dodge the national crisis This year's SONA cannot dodge the national crisis On Thursday 9 February, President Cyril Ramaphosa will deliver his annual State of the Nation Address (SONA) at the formal opening of Parliament. He w... ESKOM GOVERNANCE PARLIAMENT SONA STATE CAPTURE Feb 7, 2023
SONA 2022: ‘High’ on good intent, lacking in delivery SONA 2022: ‘High’ on good intent, lacking in delivery The President’s action plan to Parliament on cleaning up state capture must ensure that necessary resources and expertise are injected into prosec... ACCOUNTABILITY SONA STATE CAPTURE Feb 11, 2022
SONA 2021: Uninspiring and lacking believable action SONA 2021: Uninspiring and lacking believable action “What South Africa didn’t need to hear as it faces its worst crisis since democracy, were old recycled promises and the confirmation of actions tha... ACCOUNTABILITY SONA Feb 12, 2021
SONA 2020: Big plans that require tough action SONA 2020: Big plans that require tough action We want to believe in the vision and plans promoted during the President’s speech. However, unless the promises made are followed by concrete, faster imp... GOVERNMENT POLICY NEWS SONA Feb 14, 2020
Less promises and more delivery for SONA 2020 – we need hope Less promises and more delivery for SONA 2020 – we need hope While past SONA speeches have proposed good plans to take South Africa forward, OUTA trusts that this week President Ramaphosa will deliver... GOVERNMENT POLICY NEWS SONA Feb 12, 2020
SONA: A history of empty promises for local government reform SONA: A history of empty promises for local government reform Multiple interventions into failing municipalities have achieved poor results despite repeated commitments at successive State of the Nati... LOCAL GOVERNMENT NEWS SONA Feb 10, 2020
SONA 2019 is more credible but ambitious SONA 2019 is more credible but ambitious The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA) welcomes President Ramaphosa’s SONA as a more credible, believable and nation-building speech than we have been used ... ESKOM SONA Feb 8, 2019
SONA 2019 jobs promise requires fixing SETAs SONA 2019 jobs promise requires fixing SETAs The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA) believes that if Government is serious about creating jobs for our youth, it needs to address the corruption in t... SERVICES SETA SETA SONA Feb 8, 2019
OUTA supports FutureSA call for Zuma’s recall OUTA supports FutureSA call for Zuma’s recall "It is past time for Jacob Zuma to leave," says Wayne Duvenage, OUTA CEO. FutureSA is a politically non-partisan coalition of civil society organisations,... CORRUPTION JACOB ZUMA OUTA SONA STATE CAPTURE Feb 5, 2018