Gordhan: Don't mess with the Treasury
“Am I going to be fired? Do you know something I don’t know?”
The National Treasury and other similar finance structures and institutions are critical and should not be “messed with”‚ says Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan. Gordhan was addressing journalists a few hours before delivering his budget speech. Gordhan seemed unfazed about speculation of a cabinet reshuffle‚ which could see him or his deputy Mcebisi Jonas make way for Brian Molefe. “Am I going to be fired? Do you know something I don’t know?” asked Gordhan in response to a question on his uncertain future. He said the treasury is a “highly professional” institution and treasuries and finance departments in general were “virtually indispensable”. “It’s in the interest of generations of South Africans to come that there are acouple of institutions that you don’t‚ in inverted commas‚ ‘mess with’‚” said Gordhan. Does it matter who is a minister in a particular department? “It depends where you are. We work very well as a team so I suppose it does matter in terms of kind of ideas that are...
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