Final preparations underway at CT's City Hall ahead of SONA

CAPE TOWN - Final preparations are underway at the Cape Town City Hall ahead of President Cyril Ramaphosa's State of the Nation Address (SONA).

Ramaphosa will on Thursday evening deliver the first SONA under the umbrella of the Government of National Unity (GNU).

It comes two weeks after a two-day Cabinet lekgotla, where the final details of the president's speech were concluded.

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The sun has risen over the Hottentots Holland mountains in the east of the city and media companies, both local and international have started setting up on the Grand Parade across the road from the City Hall.

There's a strong police presence around the precinct, with barricades and several checkpoints.

President Cyril Ramaphosa is expected to lay out his administration's agenda for their five-year political term.

But remember, for the first time in the country’s democratic history, the African National Congress (ANC) is no longer the only governing party nationally.

So it will be interesting how much of the Democratic Alliance (DA)'s agenda and that of the other eight parties in the GNU makes it to Ramaphosa’s SONA speech.

As the parties have emphasised, they are in the GNU to govern and not to rubber stamp ANC policies.