I was struck that many of the pronouncements by President Ramaphosa in the 2022 State of the Nation Address (SoNA 2022) are noble in intent but fail to address the mechanism by which policy pronouncements become a reality. While it is correct, as the President did, to allude to the consequences of State Capture and the COVID-19 pandemic that have set the country back, these alone cannot be the reasons why South Africa finds itself in the perilous position that it does today. In fact, from the Constitution down this country has some of the most progressive policies and legislation in the world but has failed in many areas to…