Cosatu wants nonconformist economists to be deployed as advisers to ministries in the economic cluster, while the union federation also indicated it would make a renewed call for the Reserve Bank’s mandate to be reviewed. As a result of President Cyril Ramaphosa’s cabinet reshuffle on Monday, Nhlanhla Nene returned to his old job as finance minister. He was fired by Jacob Zuma in 2015. Nene will be deputised by former Ekurhuleni mayor Mondli Gungubele, whose stint in the ANC caucus in Parliament saw him among those in the party who led the charge against the capture of the state. Pravin Gordhan, who two weeks ago said he was willing to serve in the executive — and was also fired in a Zuma reshuffle — was appointed public enterprises minister. "The recomposition of the president’s team at the Cabinet level should be followed by the deployment of heterodox economists to the ministry of finance and other strategic economic departments, so that they can implement activist and distributi...
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