Despite the cloud of scandal over his head, deputy finance minister Sfiso Buthelezi believes he can fix the trust deficit between business and government.
Deputy finance minister Sfiso Buthelezi’s plan to climb up from junk status and out of the recession is deceptively simple: he will channel Nelson Mandela to repair the rift between business and government.
Buthelezi apparently believes his eight years on Robben Island, between 1983 and 1991, have prepared him for this task — something he equates with the Codesa talks during the sunset of the apartheid era.