Will Brian Molefe make a tearful treasury acceptance speech?
The clock, they say, is ticking away the hours before Brian Molefe takes treasury
The return of Brian Molefe to public life on the back benches of parliament has once more caused speculation about the future of finance minister Pravin Gordhan. It is now widely held that President Jacob Zuma regards Molefe as the man to remove the Gordhan thorn from his side. Since the day he was forced to return Gordhan to the ministry to replace David Des van Rooyen, Zuma has regretted his decision. Instead of getting with the programme, Gordhan had the cheek to set about cleaning house in state-owned enterprises and roundly condemned cronyism. Zuma’s supporters within the ANC Youth League have gone so far as to call him an “impimpi” — the apartheid era word for security police spy. Let’s go back to November last year when Molefe stepped down as Eskom boss.
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