Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba has again thrown down the gauntlet to business and social partners‚ saying they should meet the government half way in order to move the economy forward. On Tuesday‚ Gigaba told a CEOs breakfast briefing — organised by the Durban Chamber of Commerce and Industries — that he had given an honest view of the problems facing SA’s economy, in the medium-term budget policy statement last week. Gigaba said it was not in the public interest‚ nor that of government’s‚ to sugar-coat the economic climate and the problems ahead. "It is only when we understand these challenges fully and candidly that we will know what to do; that we will know what trade-offs must be made in the public interest‚" he said. Gigaba said the government could have simply pretended as if things were fine and walked away. "It’s one thing to say to people that times are tough and walk away. It’s another thing to say we need to do something and be pragmatic about it … something that goes bey...
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