SONA debate: ANC's performance in govt over last 30 years backed up by stats, says Majodina
ANC chief whip, Pemmy Majodina lashed out at opposition parties for their negativity, saying if they were to come to power, poverty and inequality would grow and wealth would only come for a few.
ANC chief whip Pemmy Majodina speaks during a debate to the possibility of initiating proceedings to remove South African President Cyril Ramaphosa from office, at a parliamentary session in Cape Town on December 13, 2022. Picture: Gianluigi Guercia / AFP
CAPE TOWN - Debate on President Cyril Ramaphosa’s State of the Nation Address (SONA) has kicked off in the Cape Town City Hall, with the African National Congress (ANC)’s chief whip, Pemmy Majodina, saying the ANC was more determined than ever to build a better life for all.
She lashed out at opposition parties for their negativity, saying if they were to come to power, poverty and inequality would grow and wealth would only come for a few.
Majodina said the ANC’s performance of 30 years in government was backed up by the statistics.
"Therefore, we do not have to be held hostage in this debate by political parties that will come with sound bites but lack the evidence. Census '22 is clear evidence."
She said opposition parties were taking cheap shots for blaming the ANC for corruption but then did not praise the party when wrongdoers are arrested.
Majodina said it was also untrue that Parliament was not acting on the recommendations of the Zondo Commission of Inquiry.
"The constant narrative that Parliament has done nothing can only be said by those who have consciously gone to sleep, who do not want to see the process of assigned sections of the report given to the committees and how the ethics committee has engaged itself and pronounced on some of the findings."