Improving the country’s ailing economy was one of the main focuses of President Cyril Ramaphosa’s state of the nation Address on Thursday. For Border-Kei Chamber of Business (BKCOB) executive director Lizelle Maurice, the address was a big step in the right direction. “We appreciate the acknowledgment by the president that the current situation of our country among others, the poverty, high unemployment, the high crime rate and lawlessness that exists, the unacceptably high levels of corru.