President Cyril Ramaphosa signalled his intention to reignite the underperforming Economic Reconstruction and Recovery Plan (ERRP) through a “comprehensive social compact” that he said labour, business and government would negotiate in the coming 100 days. Delivering his State of the Nation Address at the Cape Town City Hall, owing to the extensive damage caused to the Parliamentary buildings in January as a result of a fire that was deliberately lit, Ramaphosa said a “new consensus” was needed to address the immediate crisis facing the country, as well as to create conditions for long lasting stability and development.
