STUART THEOBALD: Tito Mboweni — an SA hero and friend to many
Mboweni lived large and had an outsized impact on the country
One of my earliest recollections of Tito Mboweni, who died on Saturday (https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/national/2024-10-13-former-finance-minister-tito-mboweni-has-died/), was a visit to Times Media in the early 2000s where he brazenly declared to assembled editors that “everything was on the record”.
This was, of course, the former minister of labour, responsible for a raft of legislation that ingrained an inflexible labour market (though he always fiercely rejected that characterisation, saying it was perfectly flexible if people just followed the law). His recasting as central bank governor in 1999 had taken many by surprise, but it showed astute political thinking by then president Thabo Mbeki. ..
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