Former finance minister Tito Mboweni has died

[The_Mowgs]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1845335568437096466

I always (still do) thought he was a cool guy and this tweet sums it up perfectly!

 

[ajules]

I mean that's like saying well at least he was the least bitey of the pit of vipers

Still not saying anything….

 

[TheChamp]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1845340373188551083

 

[Mike Angelo]

Food poisoning. The human body is ever so fragile.

Bad pilchards...?
But seriously he was one of the good guys. RIP.

 

[Lupus]

Still not saying anything….

Exactly, saying he was the better of a bunch of pit vipers isn't saying much. They're still pit vipers, just cause we never found anything out means he might have been a wiser one.

 

[Adeptus Mechanicus]

I feel for the family, but I'm no more or less likely to mourn the guy as I would have Gordhan.

All cogs in the crooked wheel of where we find ourselves now.

 

[Longboi]

RIP.

 

[PaulGherkin]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1845340373188551083

Your ideal ANC hero and flawless struggle vetaran

 

[FiestaST]

 

[TheChamp]

He wasn't a billionaire either.

Must be the MK gang spreading lies.

 

[Lupus]

Your ideal ANC hero and flawless struggle vetaran

Not getting caught, that's a rarity

 

[PaulGherkin]

Not getting caught, that's a rarity

Probably smarter than Ramagardenboy and Zoomer, probably was a bit more educated in the art

 

[ForceFate]

Your ideal ANC hero and flawless struggle vetaran

Your take.


No one called him flawless.

 

[NarrowBandFtw]

that's 50% of all past ANC finance ministers dead ... someone tell Manuel and Nene to be careful!

(and no, I did not count the weekend special or that last Zuma turd Gigaba)

 

[DreamKing]

My mother always said, if you can't say anything nice, rather not say.

today is a beautiful sunny day, nice weather.

 

[DreamKing]

no one remembers what this "good" guy did?

 

[Swa]

no one remembers what this "good" guy did?

He's being praised for our "progressive" labour laws, funny enough one of the things mostly holding our country back. Besides for that he got our inflation target in order and he was an OKish finance minister under the circumstances.

 

[TheChamp]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1845234008638071126

 

[DreamKing]

Besides for that he got our inflation target in order and he was an OKish finance minister under the circumstances.

I disagree. don't forget this one.

Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula confirmed late on Thursday that government had decided to retain the the user-pay principle. This followed Mboweni’s disclosure in his medium-term budget policy statement (MTBPS) speech on Wednesday in reference to the Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project (GFIP).

Government backtracks on Tito Mboweni’s e-toll comments | The Citizen

A final decision on e-tolls will be taken in two weeks, says Mbalula.

www.citizen.co.za

 

[Swa]

I disagree. don't forget this one.

Government backtracks on Tito Mboweni’s e-toll comments | The Citizen

A final decision on e-tolls will be taken in two weeks, says Mbalula.

www.citizen.co.za

Well that wasn't really in his hands, and I don't think anybody could have done a better job given the situation the ANC put us in. It's kinda like trying to reign in an overspending wife.