South Africa: Sona2019 - Ramaphosa Uses His Reply to Answer Internal Critics Over Eskom Restructuring

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President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Thursday that the strained public purse will cough up to help stabilise the ailing Eskom, but kicked for touch to next week's Budget on the details.

President Cyril Ramaphosa's reply to the parliamentary debate on his State of the Nation Address (SONA) was focused on answering in-house criticism by the governing ANC that his address last week had been too business-focused, and that the Eskom restructuring was tantamount to privatisation.

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