NEWS ANALYSIS: Ramaphosa should step up and take ownership of the clean-up process
President’s silence on Gordhan attacks is sending mixed signals, but there could be method in his madness
Even with the SA political script veering wildly over the past few years, Tito Mboweni delivering Wednesday’s medium-term budget policy statement (MTBPS) is a plot twist nobody could have anticipated. The finance ministry looked to be stable under Nhlanhla Nene and who could have guessed that President Cyril Ramaphosa’s first cabinet change would involve someone he handpicked just eight months ago as part of his A-team? Had Nene not testified at the state capture commission of inquiry, he probably would have delivered the 2018 MTBPS that he and the team at the National Treasury had been preparing for months. There would likely have been some agitation from the EFF during the speech, as they had raised concerns back in May about Nene’s relationship with dodgy business people, although they did not spell out then that these were the Guptas. By agreeing to testify at the Zondo commission, Nene had aligned with those piecing together the puzzle of the capture project and revealed his pa...
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