Government playing its part — business and labour must help fight recession, says deputy finance minister
Deputy Finance Minister Sfiso Buthelezi said government was responding to the credit rating downgrades and recession, and the key was for business and labour to come to the party. He also said that while Treasury has not taken a position on the public protector’s report, he welcomed the Reserve Bank’s right to take the matter forward for a judicial review. Speaking at the Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) on Monday, Buthelezi said: "It’s very important that we get business on board and they do their part. In our interaction with business, they keep coming up with ‘trust deficit’." He said business and government would be judged harshly by history if they did not work together, noting that the ANC and the old National Party had worked beyond their trust deficit.
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