Of budget speech, opposition and leadership - Ntuane speaks [Part 1]

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This occasion represents the second time I will be discharging the function of responding to the national budget as presented by government through Minister Kenneth Matambo. The response to Budget 2011 ran to approximately 10,000 words.

Before that my response  to the 2010 state of the nation comprised 14,000 words and the Road to Denmark, being the 2011 response to the state of the nation came to 12,000 words. 

The experience I have derived from  all the  presentations  under reference is that the  mass media   on  whom  we depend   for  wider dissemination  of  these  important  documents select only  a  few  issues  for reportage. 

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