Nice “Team SA” approach, but they knew it could be an ambush, and Trump was never going to concede on white farmers.
The brief should have been simple: “Rebut the falsehoood, then shift to AGOA, investment and aid”.
Were they not briefed? Or did they not stick to the script?
When I was a very young shadow minister of finance, Pravin Gordhan was the minister. He was the only minister that had regular 1-on-1s with our side. He took the institutions of democracy as seriously as he took his job. A model public leader at a time they were in short supply.
The markets clearly gave the Finance Minister the thumbs up for playing a decent hand with a seriously constrained deck of cards.
Three takeaways we discussed with South African Institute of Taxation yesterday...
1. Shifting Eskom and other SOE's debt…https://t.co/IQ7ueaRrgQ
The best coffee in Cape Town is now serving at Yebo Baba
You knew him at &Union and Frankie Fenner… now come and support Mthetho Dlukwana and his new coffee shop: 61 Loop St in the CBD.
Weekdays 07h00-16h00
Saturday: 08h00-14h00
Wow did we really do this #DigitalNomad campaign with @Wesgro in #CapeTown all the way back in 2017! How the world has changed 💪 https://t.co/eaQLXfJilv
Throwback to when my boet @lurks, @timharris and @LusoLab travelled up the west coast of Africa searching for the perfect wave.
https://t.co/3eeVan4tAF
#africansurfer
The Start-up Act Steering Committee wants president Cyril Ramaphosa to eliminate the red-tape obstructing the growth of SA’s SME sector. https://t.co/S9gEZye59i
Big week for the SA Entrepreneurial Ecosystem as @PresidencyZA@CyrilRamaphosa engaged with key #Startup enablers to hear out proposals that could rapidly expand the growth of entreps in South Africa. #VentureCapital Funding, #SAStartupAct, Excon, Digital Skills, Incentives...
We're officially underway! 👩🏽💻
Thanks to @yawzie for kicking us off, we’re looking forward to unpacking the impact of #Covid19 on the Western Cape exports, current Western Cape top export markets & products, our Export unit's market access programme & so much more. 👇🏽