RANJENI MUNUSAMY: Has someone explained the economy to Zuma?
'In Zuma's universe, you can probably cheat your cholesterol test by sucking in your tummy'
It is difficult to tell whether President Jacob Zuma any longer understands the concept of truth. Perhaps he has invoked some sort of self-protection mechanism that causes such a distortion of reality that he is convinced of the untruths he utters, even in parliament. How else do you explain Zuma saying this week when confronted by the opposition about the dismal state of the economy: "There is no economy that is collapsing in the hands of the ANC. Since 1994, the ANC has grown this economy."Is it possible that the president just did not understand what his finance minister was saying last week in the medium-term budget policy statement - in the very house where he was arguing that the economy was growing? Malusi Gigaba made a point of saying that it was neither in the public interest nor in the interest of the government to "to sugarcoat the state of our economy and the challenges we are facing". He did so before announcing that economic growth projections had been revised downward...
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