16.36-----Anatomy of Mosebenzi Zwane's great big Gupta lieMinerals minister Mosebenzi Zwane has just been exposed for telling the biggest lie by a person in his position in post-apartheid South Africa. (There were plenty bigger lies before that, but that's for another day.)This is how it unfolded.1. On Thursday evening, Zwane issued a statement, purporting to be the official view of the cabinet. It said that the cabinet had adopted his proposal that a full judicial inquiry be held into the banks that had denied the Guptas a banking licence. It went further to state that the Treasury and the Reserve Bank be investigated and that legal action be considered against them for allowing this injustice to occur.2. On Friday morning, the Business Day newspaper - and others - gave the story a great deal of prominence and rightly observed: "The announcement comes as investor confidence in SA is in free-fall, as a slew of decisions emerging from the Zuma administration creates growing uncertain...
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