JUSTICE MALALA: What the ANC forgets
The party can no longer run the government alone, pretend that citizens and business are a piggy bank or ignore what VAT hikes did elsewhere
Deputy finance minister David Masondo posted a bunch of lovely pictures on social media on Sunday. In the pictures Masondo is seen alongside finance minister Enoch Godongwana, director-general of the National Treasury Duncan Pieterse and Reserve Bank communications chief Thoraya Pandy. They are on a walkabout through the Cape Town International Convention Centre, venue of the G20 finance ministers and central bank governors meeting, which is taking place this week.
Nowhere in the pictures do you see Ashor Sarupen, the other deputy minister of finance. Look, it could be that he was there. The centre is a huge venue. It could be that he was checking out the other side of the place. Or that he is on other manoeuvres...
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