We had a budget speech delivered yesterday. South Africa’s Finance Minister, Tito Mboweni, stood up and delivered a budget that is supposedly all about the country’s recovery from the pandemic, promoting business and reducing unemployment. This whole thing has kind of stuck in my throat.
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We need to talk …
We live in a world where populism is increasingly the only acceptable social currency. We have a government minister wanting to have athletes investigated for not “bending the knee” to the Black Lives Matter movement, blanket statements by a socialite stating South African men at “roaches” and … pick any number of the other social media tirades currently taking place.
