News24.com | SONA 2019: From 'Thuma Mina' to 'New Dawn Fades' as Bosasa casts a shadow
The 2018 State of the Nation Address had the nation jiving to the jaunty jazz of Hugh Masekela's "Thuma Mina", and President Cyril Ramaphosa tried to reprise this at the 2019 edition, but the pall of the gloomy post-punk of Joy Division's "New Dawn Fades" was cast over the event instead.