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I don't have any links for this, but it's current anyway.
I don't know about anyone else, but I found Pres. Motlanthe's speech today to be very tepid. He spoke and spoke and spoke, but very little was said it seems. For the first part of the speech, it sounded more like a history lesson than anything else.
People applauded at all the usual promises, including corruption, yet I thought it was ironical considering that the king of corruption himself was not to far away from them all.
After the speech, the coverage on SABC had the usual interviews with the political leaders, and most of them agreed that the speech was fairly weak, and just about everyone mentioned that the poor guy was a caretaker president.
Helen Zille's comments were quite interesting after wards, she was quite aggressive in her comments, but rightly so. She claimed it was the speech of an ANC "deployee" which in a sense is correct. Of course, being in office for 6 odd months, the man couldn't do much, let alone with Luthuli House on his back.
Later on the breakdancer himself was interviewed and I found it amusing that Kim Cloete almost physically pulled away from him, as if she were trying to keep away from prying hands or something. She and Vuyo couldn't exactly ask the hard questions of Zuma, but his answers were once again all rhetoric, very little substance.
I also found it odd that the election data wasn't announced. I mean, why keep holding on and on and on?
Ah well, I will say that the Pres. probably enjoyed his one and only day getting such special attention, and it gave all the politicians a reason for existing today lol.
I don't have any links for this, but it's current anyway.
I don't know about anyone else, but I found Pres. Motlanthe's speech today to be very tepid. He spoke and spoke and spoke, but very little was said it seems. For the first part of the speech, it sounded more like a history lesson than anything else.
People applauded at all the usual promises, including corruption, yet I thought it was ironical considering that the king of corruption himself was not to far away from them all.
After the speech, the coverage on SABC had the usual interviews with the political leaders, and most of them agreed that the speech was fairly weak, and just about everyone mentioned that the poor guy was a caretaker president.
Helen Zille's comments were quite interesting after wards, she was quite aggressive in her comments, but rightly so. She claimed it was the speech of an ANC "deployee" which in a sense is correct. Of course, being in office for 6 odd months, the man couldn't do much, let alone with Luthuli House on his back.
Later on the breakdancer himself was interviewed and I found it amusing that Kim Cloete almost physically pulled away from him, as if she were trying to keep away from prying hands or something. She and Vuyo couldn't exactly ask the hard questions of Zuma, but his answers were once again all rhetoric, very little substance.
I also found it odd that the election data wasn't announced. I mean, why keep holding on and on and on?
Ah well, I will say that the Pres. probably enjoyed his one and only day getting such special attention, and it gave all the politicians a reason for existing today lol.