Kudos to John Fairwell, author of an interesting but factually incorrect letter on Pravin Gordhan, now SA’s public enterprises minister (“Pravin Gordhan, architect of financial ruin, must go (https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/opinion/letters/2020-08-04-letter-pravin-gordhan-architect-of-financial-ruin-must-go/)”, August 4).
He asserts that SA entered the 2000s with a debt-to-GDP ratio of 43%, which was reduced to 27% by 2008 under the steady and trusted hands of then finance minister Trevor Manuel and then president Thabo Mbeki...
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