Ramaphosa responds to Sona debate

Watch the live stream of the president's response to the Sona debate.

President of South Africa Cyril Ramaphosa. Picture: Phando Jikelo/African News Agency(ANA

Following a full day of debates by MPs on President Cyril Ramaphosa’s State of the Nation Address on Tuesday, the president will get a chance to respond to them today. The president received criticism from Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema, among others, who said the president gave opposition parties nothing to debate on.

He expressed disappointment at an address that came from a man “who held the ambition to be president for almost three decades”.

“We really have no Sona to debate. What we have is a misguided, incoherent, contradictory, and proven-to-be-futile ideas mixed in a bag of fantasies.”

Malema said that even though American media mogul Oprah Winfrey spoke for Ramaphosa before the elections, the president failed to represent himself during his Sona and consequently disappointed those who voted for him.

“We were abused here during the election campaign that saw people like Oprah Winfrey rented and sneaked into the country in the name of the Global Citizen Festival to come and tell us how Madiba wanted you, Mr President, to be president. After your speech, we now ask ourselves ‘what did Madiba see in you that we can’t see?’

Today, the president gets a chance to respond.

Watch the stream below: