Surprise! JZ appoints new Finance Minister

[Brett Nortje]

Have you guys heard about the health sector? they say no health care needs medical aid, and, all hospitals need to accept anyone.

Quite bizarre.

[adrianh]

Have you guys heard about the health sector? they say no health care needs medical aid, and, all hospitals need to accept anyone.

Quite bizarre.

Why do you say that this is bizarre?

[Blurock]

I personally don't like politics, and if we are honest it is not benefiting anyone anymore. South Africa was, and can still be a strong independent country. Unfortunately reckless spending and corruption, along with reckless borrowing of funds will burden us and many future generations for years to come.

Unfortunately it is our children that will be tasked to set things right.

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.
Kurt Cobain

Politics is threatening our businesses. If business is adversely affected, it puts jobs at risk. If jobs are at risk, it threatens our society. If society is threatened, it threatens our very existence.

#ZumaMustFallNow

[Electrode]

Politics is threatening our businesses. If business is adversely affected, it puts jobs at risk. If jobs are at risk, it threatens our society. If society is threatened, it threatens our very existence.

#ZumaMustFallNow

It is my opinion that businesses always had the ability to stop the gravy train. Backing the right political party is a start. Pushing that political party to approach both the national and international legal system can help the cause. Giving individuals the option not to pay SARS legally would be the next logical step. Within these steps pressure could have been placed on our existing government to handle corruption more effectively and perhaps clean house.

It is the responsibility of the opposing party to do the legal research and create a mandate that businesses and individuals can implement. Stopping SARS payments legally can be a decisive step forward. Empowering businesses and individual is the first step towards a working solution.

Legal financial protest can be effective. It will take strong leadership, conviction and intimate knowledge about our legal system.

[Blurock]

The reality is that there are very few business leaders who have the balls to challenge government, be it is South Africa, Ghana, the UK or anywhere in the world. Business is indirectly dependant on government and most business leaders are too scared to challenge the status quo as they may lose sales in the process. Our government is so corrupt and racist that they will actually sacrifice jobs in order to implement their strategies. I call on all business leaders to stand up for the truth and to fight corruption in which ever form.

#ZumaMustFallNow

[wynn]

Had to smile at this by Miles in Friday's Dispatch

[Justloadit]

Zuma broke his silence.
The statement said that it was all planned.

You bet it has been all planned, he is now trying to mislead everyone by stating

Jacob Zuma, the president explained Nene's axing as a move to send him to Shanghai as the country's nomination for the head of the African Regional Centre of the BRICS bank.

[flaker]

Now we have an "old" new finance minister in Pravin Gordhan. After PW's "Rubicon" the rand never recovered to levels prior to that speech in Durban.

After this newest shuffle i am now wondering if the Rand will recover to levels prior to Zumas's Rubicon.

[IanF]

There was heavy behind the scenes goings on, if this is true Cyril also played Russian roulette.

On Saturday, talk that Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa would resign was gaining ground. Ramaphosa had not been seen since Nene’s firing and did not attend Van Rooyen’s swearing-in ceremony. Both Ramaphosa and Nene had worked on the SAA turnaround together and speculation was that Nene had dug in his heels on the Airbus deal after having consulted Ramaphosa. This raised questions about the state of the relationship between Zuma and Ramaphosa.

If Ramaphosa had walked, the market was destined for a crash as he was brought in as Zuma’s deputy specifically to calm investors and big business.

The link to Daily Maverick article

[Dave A]

I definitely got a sense of deja vu this morning when I saw the news

Quite clearly our President miscalculated. Will he survive now that the rashness of his decision to sack Nene and his failed bluster to cover it up has been exposed?

#ZumaMustStillFall

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[Blurock]

I definitely got a sense of deja vu this morning when I saw the news

Quite clearly our President miscalculated. Will he survive now that the rashness of his decision to sack Nene and his failed bluster to cover it up has been exposed?

#ZumaMustStillFall

I almost recovered some trust in the government, but then I realised that these are the same idiots who defended the buffoon on the Nkandla issue, the SAA, the SABC, the nuclear deal, the arms deal etc etc etc...

#ZumaMustFallHard

[Xplosiv]

[IanF]

What surprised me with the new/old minster is he seemed to be adamant about not taking nonsense from the SOEs or government departments.

Will this just be bluster or for real?

[wynn]

Miles and the Dispatch are at it again!