Analysts weigh Sona’s delivery challenge

At a Mail & Guardian post-Sona breakfast held in partnership with the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung and the Embassy of Ireland, analysts turned from the president’s reform agenda to the harder question of execution. Structural unemployment, municipal dysfunction, coalition politics and institutional rebuilding dominated a discussion that placed delivery, not rhetoric, at the centre of South Africa’s political moment.

If Sona sought to project stability, the question the following morning was credibility.