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Given the importance of the President's recent State of the Nation address it is only sensible that we regularly turn to it for updated information, to gain a better understanding of his government's prioritising and thinking and discover which of its concerns it wishes to describe and which it wishes to smudge.

If the incredibly important Ponto Techobanine project barely got a mention, there was also no comment about the humiliation that the government reaped from the World Cup. Believing that it could do in two years what South Africa did in eight, it jettisoned its past much prized pragmatism, threw common sense out of the window and discarding all the normal safeguards and procedures landed up with an accounting nightmare, a still incomplete SSK airport terminal and white elephant sports stadiums.