We have now reached into the darkest corner to scrape the very bottom of our extremely rotten barrel. Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba, lapdog of the Thief in Chief, is on his way to foreign shores in an effort to convince investors SA is on course for a new growth trajectory that deserves their unfailing support. He is quite obviously on a road to nowhere. What will be the outcome of such an Orwellian season of spin designed to reflect the false rays of sunshine radiating from our rapidly shrinking economic space? The endgame mirrors the campaign manufactured by Bell Pottinger. The result will no doubt form part of a legacy that precedes its sudden resignation from the Zupta account, no doubt after the heat in the kitchen cremated its credibility. In my view, Gigaba will get a far better reception in Saville Row and New Bond Street. Perhaps 1st Avenue will generate the real action he is looking for. Investors will be conspicuous by their absence, given the obvious fraud that is calle...
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