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Tito Mboweni reacts to claims Zuma’s Left Wing shafted chance as Finance Minister
Former SA Reserve Bank Governor Tito Mboweni reacted angrily and then with concern after seeing the Sunday Times newspaper’s front page lead article claiming he had been shafted by President Jacob Zuma’s left wing allies. Mboweni, an adept user of Twitter with more than 60 000 followers, first became aware of the article late on Saturday night when he saw a tweet from the Sunday Times.
@SundayTimesZA Please send me the story. Why did you not speak to me? Bad journalism if I might say.
— Tito Mboweni (@tito_mboweni) May 24, 2014
Asked what he thought, the man who had been widely tipped to succeed Pravin Gordhan as Finance Minister reacted angrily – capital letters online are the equivalent of shouting.
The Sunday Times NEVER SPOKE TO ME OR ASKED FOR A COMMENT. How can they run with a story about ME without talking to me. Wrong, cruel, bad.. — Tito Mboweni (@tito_mboweni) May 24, 2014
Once he had been sent the piece, however, a more reflective Mboweni tweeted:
They sent me the story. if sources are correctly quoted, Cry the Beloved Country! Those that the gods have condemned, they first make mad.
— Tito Mboweni (@tito_mboweni) May 24, 2014
The reaction from elsewhere is sure to be equally uncomfortable for a President who seems to be walking a tightrope between various interest groups. Mboweni is held in extremely high regard among those with the power to allocate the capital that developing economies like South Africa need if they are to grow, alleviate poverty and increase employment.
My daily newsletter, distributed early this morning and headlined Mboweni an unfortunate omission from the cabinet, reads:
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