station to say they had been raped. On the day of the state of the nation address, 53 children under the age of five would have died. Three quarters of those children would not have seen their first birthday.
Mr President, this is 2019. We should not be speaking of these things. On the day of the state of the nation address, over 30 million South Africans who live below the poverty line would have struggled to afford the very basics to survive.