EDITOR’S LUNCHBOX: More muted panic after Michael Sachs quits Treasury
Stories of note Bytes from the digital world The Treasury deputy director-general who headed the budget office, Michael Sachs, has resigned over President Jacob Zuma’s vote-grabbing plan to declare university education free, even though the country cannot afford the required R40bn. Cabinet ministers and their deputies will get a 4% pay increase while MPs, MPLs and traditional leaders will get a 4.5% increase. The matter of SA’s R50.8bn tax revenue shortfall was not raised in consultations by Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba. In my opinion Matters of debate What happens if you take banality, infuse it with facile self-righteousness, add a good dose of obsequiousness and set the result to the soundtrack of a finger nail being slowly scraped across a chalk board? We now have the answer: An ANN7 interview with Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma. Spare a thought for Malusi Gigaba. He has become finance minister at the worst time to have the job since the 1985 debt default, which marked the apartheid g...
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