BUSINESS DAY TV: Will Gigaba be able to play the enforcer role in Treasury?
BUSINESS DAY TV: Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba addressed Parliament’s standing committee on finance today, where he was grilled on why adviser Chris Malikane had not been fired yet, and he was also pressed for more details on radical economic transformation. Business Day’s Linda Ensor was there and she joins us now on the line. Linda … so apart from being grilled on Chris Malikane, the finance minister was also grilled on the role of his wife Norma, who was on TV last week talking about her role in moulding of the finance minister. Do you think there’s too much focus on his wife and adviser, and people aren’t giving Finance Minister Gigaba a chance to prove his mettle at this stage? LINDA ENSOR: It was very much a DA attack, but before questions were posed he did have the floor and was able to reiterate a lot of the messages that he’d been given since his appointment about any political consolidation but the need for some kind of inclusive growth and reducing the inequality. So yes...
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