Cape Town – With days left before South Africans head to the polls in a significant election, President Cyril Ramaphosa has reflected on his nearly five years in office, noting the initial goals to advance South Africa despite various challenges.
“What we sought to do when we got into office for this sixth term was to move South Africa ahead and, as we sought to do so, a number of headwinds started detracting us from our march forward,” the president said during an interview with during an interview Primedia’s Johannesburg studios.
He added: “We had State Capture to deal with, which by the way we have stopped – it was an overriding process… it had also weakened our SOEs… in ways that had really debiliated Eskom and Transnet and Prasa…
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“The second thing was Covid. It descended on us soon after the sixth administration started. Then we had the floods, then we had the unrest in July 2021.
“A lot has been done in the past five years.”
Ramaphosa expressed confidence in being re-elected and reiterated his commitment to serving the South African people fully in his next term.
“I will be voted back into power and I will serve my full term, and ‘serve’ is the operative word; serve the people of South Africa,” he said.
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