Expectations of Our First SONA Under the GNU: A Blueprint for Economic Growth and Job Creation 

The upcoming State of the Nation Address (SONA) is expected to outline a transformative agenda focused on modernising South Africa’s infrastructure and public services. Key priorities should include:  If these areas are addressed effectively, the SONA could set South Africa on a growth path.  Resolve Communications is a leading communications agency specialising in strategic communications, […]

Resolve Rundown: 3 – 7 February 2025

This Week in Parliament This week in Parliament, all eyes will be on the State of the Nation Address (SONA) by President Cyril Ramaphosa, scheduled for Thursday, 6 February 2025. The President will deliver his address to a Joint Sitting of Parliament at the Cape Town City Hall, outlining the government’s key policy objectives, achievements, […]

Motsoaledi’s Sugar Rush: Sweet Taxes, Sour Consequences

It’s helpful for politicians to sometimes have an enemy of sorts—a scapegoat or something to blame when media attention ratchets up or becomes negative. This is a strategy Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has mastered. When he was the Minister of Home Affairs, illegal immigrants were often a target of his attention. In his first stint […]

Resolve Rundown: 27 – 31 January 2025

This Week in Parliament This week in Parliament, key committee meetings will focus on urgent national issues. On Tuesday, the Portfolio Committee on Agriculture will receive a briefing on the food safety implications of pesticide contamination in spaza shop products, which resulted in several deaths across two provinces. On the same day, the Portfolio Committee […]

One Minute to Midnight: Can South Africa Avoid Crisis?

South Africa, as is often observed, is on the brink of some kind of existential crisis, at the proverbial one minute to midnight. Happily, we have, at numerous points in our history, confounded the naysayers and made significant progress. Despite achieving an extraordinary and relatively peaceful transition from Apartheid to a non-racial democracy, we seem […]

Resolve Rundown: 20 – 24 January 2025

1. Parliamentary ProgrammeProvisional Dates – 2025 • 2nd to 10th January 2025 – Leave Period• 13th to 24th January 2025 – Constituency Period• 27th January to 5th February 2025 – National Assembly Committees• 6th February 2025 – State of the Nation Address• 17th to 25th February 2025 – National Assembly Committees• 18th to 28th February […]

Tony Blair and how to win the communications war

The current Labour government in Britain is battling a welter of adverse conditions as dire as the English weather. Headed by Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, it sits atop a massive parliamentary majority which, due to the anomalies of its electoral system, masks the slender nature of its vote total (a very modest 33.7% netted […]

Resolve Rundown: 13 – 17 January 2025

Parliamentary Agenda & Key Dates Committee Sessions: From 27 January to 5 February 2025, National Assembly Committees will convene to discuss legislative matters and prepare for the upcoming sessions. These meetings are essential for setting legislative priorities and ensuring that critical issues are addressed.   State of the Nation Address (SONA): Scheduled for 6 February […]

Without more journalists and platforms, SA will suffer 

This coming Sunday there won’t be an actual paper City Press or Rapport available to buy in stores. For many of us, this is terrible news, but the demise of printed news is not a new phenomenon. The first precursors to electronic news were already launched as early as 1983. A sobering fact. The revolution […]

Bold action needed for food and job security in South Africa 

Earlier this year, the Department of Agriculture released the National Food and Nutrition Security Survey (NFNSS), conducted by the Human Sciences Research Council. This worrying study of South African’s access to food found that 63.5% of South African households were food insecure, meaning that they don’t have enough food or access to food for most […]