On Thursday, the ever-upbeat Pravin Gordhan claimed in parliament that state-owned entities (SOEs) have the potential to be “exemplary” in future. He then castigated the DA for being too scared to take on the “monster” of state capture.

Why should they take it on? They have been against every policy of BEE and state ownership from the start of the new SA, as they could see what the result was going to be: mass economic inefficiency, with mass economic destruction and corruption...

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