After President Cyril Ramaphosa quoted Hugh Masekela during his SONA 2018 finale, Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba likely thought he’d do something similar to rouse the nation.
His pick? The admirable Kendrick Lamar. But while the multi-Grammy winner is held in high esteem across the world, it’s Gigaba’s delivery of “Alright” that Twitter didn’t quite enjoy.
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“We gon’ be alright,” he quipped, quoting complete with hand whip and before announcing an increase to sin tax.
The social network broke soon after.
I’m done with this budget speech, did Gigaba just quote Kendrick?
#BudgetSpeech2018 #Budget2018 — Sakkie Ntloko (@sk_shred) February 21, 2018
That Kendrick quote was awful.. Wow Gigaba
— Nxillmonger (@KeKatli) February 21, 2018
Malusi Gigaba, just quoted Kendrick Lamar in his speech.
I am dead. — irchandini (@IRchandini) February 21, 2018
#BudgetSpeech2018
Did he just quote Kendrick Lamar saying “we gon be alright, we gon be alright”!!!? Nah that was unnecessary Melusi Gigaba pic.twitter.com/7VmYhzK07r— 02 Jan/Capricorn
(@Lloyd_G7) February 21, 2018
And others — who didn’t have time for lyrics — lamented that sin tax increase.
How can Gigaba say important things in IsiZulu. Things like sin tax increases. Eish this guy mara #BudgetSpeech2018 pic.twitter.com/IgKM4YcNMv
— Floyd Nkuna (@AmuFloyd) February 21, 2018
The Budget Speech continues on YouTube. Watch it live here.
Feature image: Kendrick Lamar in 2017 by Kenny Sun via Flickr (CC 2.0 BY)
