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[ THE BIG ISSUE ] OPEN LETTERS TO GOVERNMENT

Dear Mr President

2024 is a watershed moment for South Africa. This year marks the 30th anniversary of South Africa’s constitutional democracy and the seventh time South African citizens will exercise their democratic rights in a general election. As you finalised your recent State of the Nation Address (SONA), your last to be delivered to this sixth democratic parliament, we do not doubt that you too were reflecting on these milestones.

In this historic year, we call on you to align government’s policy and implementation efforts behind

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