Farewell, Gov

Caiphus Kgosana remembers his encounters with Tito Mboweni, who wasn’t just a maverick but a genuinely larger-than-life personality

20 October 2024 - 00:00

I never met Tito Mboweni the freedom fighter. I never met Mboweni the labour minister or the Reserve Bank governor. But I had several encounters with Mboweni the finance minister at his mountain hideout in Limpopo, and those interactions remain some of the best I’ve had in a journalism career spanning more than two decades...

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