PETER BRUCE: My love affair with Malusi Gigaba
He could have a real political future in SA if he grew up a little and started behaving like a man
On Sunday morning I woke up in a hotel room in Madrid, Spain. My favourite city. I lived here for seven years as the Financial Times’ Iberia bureau chief in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Madrid’s a city for and of denizens. Large parts of it are a warren of bars and flamenco joints and I never tire of being in them. On Sunday morning, though, my usual column appeared in the Sunday Times back in Johannesburg. In it I had welcomed the arrival of President Cyril Ramaphosa and his soaring state of the nation address. My tone was criticised as “fawning” by one DA adviser to someone else in the DA: He clearly missed the bit where his own party leader had got out of his seat to hug Ramaphosa. Anyway, I warned that a Ramaphosa presidency would not always feel this good and guessed (correctly, I think) that finance minister Malusi Gigaba will give tomorrow’s budget address. I said he would then be removed from the cabinet in the reshuffle to follow the budget but suggested that he could be...
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