Like too many South Africans, I want to believe your state of the nation address. But I know that you are not in charge. And because of that, all you can do is offer us a revision, while our country desperately needs a new vision for change.
Hon President, we all know our economy needs a dependable supply of electricity in order to grow. I'm sure you'd like to unbundle Eskom, but you know as I do - as you have been promising the last 10 years - that your ANC-aligned unions will not allow you to do that.
I'm sure you'd love to reform our failing education system, but I know for a fact that your colleagues at the SA Democratic Teachers' Union, Sadtu, will not allow you to do so.
I'm sure you would like to let people like Angelo Agrizzi and his Bosasa colleagues take the fall. What the ANC will not allow you to do is allow people like Dudu Myeni and the hon