The finance minister declared in August 2019 that he wants to debate economic policy. It seems, however, impossible to get an answer on why the single shareholder in the Government Employee Pension Fund, which is the Treasury, doesn't change the GEPF's investment policy to be more supportive of the public sector, as well as more prudent.
Finance Minister Tito Mboweni doesn't seem to know how -- or whether -- to provide the R2bn that Treasury promised in immediate funding for South African Airways. Whatever other problems are facing the public service airline, the problem the Treasury has with this R2bn is contrived. Behind the financial game of chicken is the finance minister's insistence that any rescue operation of SAA must be funded from the national budget.
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