LETTER: Mboweni’s immoral MTBPS
The finance minister deserves a tongue-lashing from the public and to be fired by the president
30 October 2020 - 13:22
Any finance minister who would agree to append their name to the grossly immoral medium-term budget policy statement (MTBPS) delivered on Wednesday would be sure to go down in history as not only a failure but an imprudent miscalculator worthy of lampooning.
It is a sad state of affairs that Tito Mboweni is the best the ANC can offer, and he is losing credibility faster than he can strip Stats SA of its resources — perhaps to hide statistics that lay bare his scandalous mismanagement of the public purse and its effects on the people of this country...
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