EDITOR ’S VIEW
RON DERBY: This is the moment Gigaba gets to choose what his legacy will be
For a man who has always tried to sit on the fence of the factional battles, it would be a big call to choose to serve the country instead of the desperate needs of his boss
Just how does Malusi Gigaba avoid sounding like the ministers who have gone before him? That's the question he, and his 20-strong entourage, have to ponder as he heads for what has to count as his most high-profile political stage yet. To deliver a fiscally responsible speech that focuses on the concerns of ratings agencies and other market players - such as deficits, the more than R2-trillion in government debt, the collapse of governance at virtually all state-owned utilities where companies such as Eskom have officially turned the CEO chair into a game of musical chairs - could perhaps be his last play in a Jacob Zuma administration. An administration which, given this week's cabinet reshuffle, is now in a desperate stage as it tries to get projects such as nuclear back onto the planning table. If nuclear isn't mentioned in his speech, the cabinet shake-up should serve more than anything else as a warning to the type of pressure he is likely to experience in the remaining months ...
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