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BUSA Welcomes SONA 2025: A Renewed Commitment to Economic Growth, Reform, and Collaboration
7th February 2025 BUSA commends President Cyril Ramaphosa for delivering a State of the Nation Address (SONA) that reaffirms and reinvigorates the government’s... →
Medium-Term Development Plan to incorporate 3% growth target 
By: Terence Creamer 7th February 2025 South Africa’s Medium-Term Development Plan (MTDP) for the five-year period to 2029 will incorporate the 3% GDP growth target announced by... →
Halt in US aid cripples global efforts to relieve hunger
By: Reuters 7th February 2025 The Trump administration’s effort to slash and reshape American foreign aid is crippling the intricate global system that aims to prevent and... →
Mixed reactions to Ramaphosa’s SoNA
By: Thabi Shomolekae 7th February 2025 Opposition parties have expressed mixed reactions to President Cyril Ramaphosa’s State of the Nation Address, with the GOOD Party praising... →
‘Navigating rapid change’: verifying South African president Cyril Ramaphosa’s 2025 state of the nation address
By: Africa Check 7th February 2025 South African president Cyril Ramaphosa delivered the first state of the nation address under the government of national unity, in which he called... →
Salga wants SoNA to address municipal challenges
By: Thabi Shomolekae 6th February 2025 As the country braces for the seventh administration’s State of the Nation Address (SoNA), South African Local Government Association (Salga)... →
The IFP Expectations Ahead of the State of the Nation Address
6th February 2025 The Inkatha Freedom Party expects President Cyril Ramaphosa to provide a comprehensive outline of the government's plans to address the country's... →
Violent crime in South Africa happens mostly in a few hotspots: police resources should focus there – criminologist
6th February 2025 Crime researchers use murder (or homicide) rate per 100 000 as a crude measure of the general level of violent interpersonal crime globally.... →
