South Africa's President Sets Policies, Poll Date

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa took full advantage of his captive national audience as he made his second annual address as president before Parliament in Cape Town. His wide-ranging two-hour State of the Nation speech Thursday night spanned so many topics, in such minute detail, that one local media outlet tried to boil it down to just the major points — and ended up with 17 of them. Another prominent columnist described Ramaphosa — flatteringly — as a policy...

© La Voix de l'Amérique - vendredi 8 février 2019