Big Read: Barefoot on a hot tin roof

20 October 2015 - 09:46
By Justice Malala

Poor, poor Nhlanhla Nene. What a fix he is in. Those who watch his mini-budget speech on Wednesday afternoon will witness one of the good men of the Jacob Zuma cabinet paddling furiously to make the books balance - and failing miserably. The finance minister is in an impossible job, made worse by the weakness and recklessness of many of his colleagues.

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