Tito declares war! Oh dear, SA, here we go again

13 November 2018 - 07:00 By tom eaton
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Finance minister Tito Mboweni.
Finance minister Tito Mboweni.
Image: Esa Alexander

 The three tweets threatening war against the media in SA were pompous and melodramatic, the liberal use of capital letters and double exclamation marks suggesting whoever was writing them was probably not very bright and was floating in a bubble of angry, dissentient reaction.

Except this wasn’t a furious illiterate hammering away in his mom’s basement. This was the finance minister of the Republic of South Africa.

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