Who is in effective control of SA? Who is attending to the lack of service delivery that SA desperately needs? Who is charting a road to uplift the country and its people? Finance minister Tito Mboweni presents the economic road map for SA on Wednesday. He is in a jam, and miracles are beyond his purview.

On October 21 2015 then finance minister Nhlanhla Nene said in his medium-term budget policy statement: “I should refrain from trespassing on territories that are supervised by cabinet colleagues. My point is that the proposals in our medium-term budget projections are only the more quantifiable instruments of our transformation. There are deeper and more profound currents. It is in the quality of our services, and the integrity of our engagements, that we have the most powerful levers of social change.” ..

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