EDITORIAL: Here’s Mokonyane’s chance to ‘lift the rand’
It’s high time that the economic duncerati in the ANC left it to Tito Mboweni. After all, they’ve had their time to ‘pick up the rand’ and they’ve failed
02 April 2020 - 05:00
Now is the time for Nomvula Mokonyane to shine. Let’s hope she’s been hitting the gym hard. Because this, right here, is the moment she promised three years ago after the night of the long knives, when her ally, former president Jacob Zuma, sacked most of the cabinet, sparking a ratings downgrade.
"Let the rand fall," said Mokonyane famously in April 2017 after Fitch and S&P downgraded SA to junk status, "we will pick it up."..
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