Against such odds, could this be Mboweni’s ‘eunuch-in-a-harem’ moment?

The finance minister is a reformer, but is hemmed in on all sides, and most of all by his own team

27 October 2020 - 20:39 By tony leon

In parliament on Wednesday, finance minister Tito Mboweni will star in an update of “Mission Impossible”. This is his self-appointed task of “closing the mouth of the hippopotamus”. Or reducing the gap between government revenue and expenditure without choking off any prospect of economic growth. ..

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