State Of The Nation 2007 - Is It All Talk?
Today President Mbeki delivered his State Of The Nation address to parliament. Much to the relief of some as he focused part of the address on crime, promising more police on the streets, putting more staff in forensic and detective units and getting the Dept of Home Affairs in order. All earnestly said with much conviction.
Unfortunately there has been much Mbeki has said in past State Of The Nation addresses that have yet to come to fruition. For instance 2 years ago Mbeki announced that schools could soon enjoy highly discounted internet access fees. Straight after that we never heard about it again except for the odd article mentioning that no schools had yet to receive any such discount. Ask the Department of Communications about the hold up and they’ll blame Telkom, ask Telkom and they’ll blame the ISPs, ask the ISPs and they blame the Department of Communication.
Unless there is a concerted political will behind any announcement made in his address, Mbeki risks many of his plans having the same fate as the now forgotten school internet access discount.