Premier, stop insulting the people of KZN from your Ivory Tower
26 February 2021
Today’s State of the Province Address (SOPA) by KwaZulu-Natal Premier, Sihle Zikalala, was an insult to the people of our province as he presented a picture of a province bursting with opportunity – when the opposite is the case.
It is clear that the Premier is out of touch with what is happening in KZN and that he has not recently set foot in many parts of the province. If he had, he would have been forced to deliver a completely different Address. Instead, he hit the ANC election campaign trail, speaking at length while saying very little.
Critically, the Premier dedicated just five lines to what is the most urgent issue in the province today – the roll-out of KZN’s Covid-19 vaccine programme.
To make matters worse, he did not release the names of the hospitals that will roll out vaccines across the province while also claiming that KZN’s public hospitals have not been swamped during the pandemic.