Ebrahim Harvey | Ramaphosa rubbed salt on SA's wounds with his Freedom Day speech

There is a startling contrast between what President Cyril Ramaphosa had to say about our accomplishments since 1994 on Saturday during his Freedom day speech, and the desperately dire socioeconomic crisis we are presently immersed in and suffer from, writes Ebrahim Harvey. 

The governing, but potentially fatally compromised and crisis-ridden ANC-led government, misrepresented the facts and truths about the real state of affairs over the past three decades in South Africa when President Cyril Ramaphosa delivered his Freedom Day speech on 27 April 2024.  

So resoundingly false was that speech that it was tantamount to rubbing salt on a festering wound. Right now, with less than a month to go before the polling day, we have the worst black poverty, unemployment and social inequalities in post-apartheid South Africa.