South Africans rallying around GNU, showing increased confidence in country's direction, says Ramaphosa
The president said that just over 100 days had passed since the members of his GNU government were sworn in and things couldn’t be better.
Ministers and deputy ministers of the Government of National Unity pose after being sworn in at the CTICC in Cape Town on 3 July 2024. Picture: @GovernmentZA/X
CAPE TOWN - President Cyril Ramaphosa said that 100 days of the Government of National Unity (GNU) had shown an increase in confidence in the country's direction.
Writing in his latest newsletter, Ramaphosa said that South Africans across society were increasingly rallying around the programme and work of the GNU.
He said this was reflected in recent opinion polls where South Africans were feeling confident more than ever.
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The president said that just over 100 days had passed since the members of his GNU government were sworn in and things couldn’t be better.
He said that in one of the polls conducted by Ipsos, the proportion of participants who believed that the country was heading in the right direction had doubled since the last surveys were conducted in April and June this year.
He said that the improvement in sentiment was informed by the effective transition to a new administration and the continuation of the reform agenda, which he said started during the sixth administration.
Ramaphosa said that the mood was supported by actual progress in addressing some of the country’s most pressing economic and social challenges.
He gave examples like the work done to resolve the energy crisis, as the country has had more than 200 days without load shedding.
He said that this effort had also "unlocked unprecedented levels of investment in the energy sector".
Ramaphosa said that a stronger economic outlook would improve South Africa's credit rating.
He believes this will facilitate "greater access to global capital markets and lower the country’s borrowing costs".