Tito Mboweni wants your 'scientific ideas' on how to improve SA's finances
Finance Minister, Tito Mboweni has asked South Africans for their "scientific ideas" on how to turn around the economy of the country.
On Tuesday SA's top diplomat, the Minister of International Relations and Cooperation (Dirco), Naledi Pandor said South Africa is facing its biggest challenges since 1994.
In her address to the South African Heads of Missions Conference in Pretoria, she said: "We need to make good on our promise to do better."
She said the country has degraded over the past 26 years, both politically and economically.
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Mboweni is set to deliver the country's Budget Vote in February after the President has delivered his State of the Nation Address (Sona).
In a Tweet on Tuesday, he said: "I suppose that my request from you ALL are scientific ideas on how we can do things differently to get unto a higher real GDP growth trajectory. Our country is in need of that. Not slogans! [email protected]. How to engender more jobs. Good talking."
I suppose that my request from you ALL are scientific ideas on how we can do things differently to get unto a higher real GDP growth trajectory. Our country is in need of that. Not slogans! [email protected]. How to engender more jobs. Good talking.
— Tito Mboweni (@tito_mboweni) January 28, 2020
Mboweni is no stranger to social media and is known for not toeing the party line on the social media platform.
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Social media users immediately started responding to his request for input, albeit not via email ad requested, with many saying corruption needed to be addressed for South Africa to grow.
1. Eradicate corruption on SMME’s funding. We have capable entrepreneurs who are able to participate and grow the economy, but can’t get funding for their businesses because they don’t have political connections.
— Mmadikgosi Matshego (@Mmadikgosi_23) January 28, 2020
2. Pay SMME’s on time, late or none payments kills small business.
Change legislation
— JoeSA (@JoeSA53634449) January 28, 2020
1) remove BEEE
2) return Mining rights tenure to those that held it in 1994.
3) renounce Eskom exclusivity
5) replace the SA dep of education system with British cambridge system or equivalent
6) renounce EWC & NHI
& watch gdp growth scream past 10%!
Time to arrest ALL who protected #Zuma during #StateCapture. They are all complicit in this disaster SA is in. Arrest ALL cadres guilty of wasteful expenditure, fraud & corruption. Start from the very top in government right down to the last at municipal level.
— Herman Groenendaal (@HermanHG) January 28, 2020
Eradicate:
— MsKay💞 (@KgomotsoRamothi) January 28, 2020
Corruption
Cadre Deployment
Nepotism
Incapable leaders
Thuggery
Looters
Factionalism
Politicizing everything
State Capture
Lies
Lack of accountability et. al