Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba has acquitted himself very well in his first 100 days in office. Let’s not forget that many investors felt he was an inappropriate choice, especially since his appointment was born of the inexplicable firing of his predecessor based on spurious grounds and fuelled by a desire by President Jacob Zuma and his Gupta puppet masters to raid the Treasury.
That project had been stopped in its tracks when the appointment of Des van Rooyen was reversed after he arrived for his first day at work accompanied by Gupta advisers. Thanks to the Gupta e-mail leaks, we now know he had been attending inductions at Saxonwold, where a plan was hatched for how the grand theft was going to take place.