#sonareply | State of the Nation Address Reply by President Cyril Ramaphosa #sona2025 "I wish to thank the Honourable Members for their contributions to the debate on the State of the Nation Address. This debate illustrated the dangers of retreating to corners, isolating ourselves in ideological, cultural, racial and linguistic enclaves and hardly ever engaging beyond our immediate circles. As South Africans, we have sat around the negotiating table and forged agreements under much more trying and fraught circumstances. The journey we are embarking upon now through the National Dialogue will result in concrete processes to become a more united and stronger South Africa in the face of many political, social and economic challenges, both globally and locally. This South Africa has been built by its own people who have sought to change their lives. They have entrusted the stewardship of this process to all of us and not just to some of us." - President Cyril Ramaphosa #govzaupdates