HILARY JOFFE: Cabinet's less glamorous posts are where rubber hits the road
The Ramaphosa reshuffle this week was driven by political positioning rather than economic reform
08 August 2021 - 00:08
Markets tend to fixate on the finance minister, as they predictably did this week when President Cyril Ramaphosa included a switch of finance minister in his cabinet reshuffle. The fixation is not so surprising: for a bond market investor, the issue is whether a country will be able to service its debt in the medium to long term, and no-one is more important to this than the finance minister.
But when it comes to the issue of how the real economy will fare in the medium to long term, and whether it will grow and create jobs, the other ministers may count just as much...
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