Gigaba: I don't speak with a forked tongue
9 May 2017
Cape Town – There’s one finance minister and he doesn’t speak with a forked tongue, Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba told Members of Parliament on Tuesday.
“I’ve been consistent and there are policies that underpin what we need to do at National Treasury. At the heart of it is the National Development Plan.”
Gigaba and officials from National Treasury appeared before Parliament’s standing committee on finance about its strategic and annual performance plans, where they were asked to give clarity on a number of issues.
David Maynier from the Democratic Alliance asked Gigaba to clarify the comments his adviser Chris Malikane had made with regard to the nationalisation of banks and mines, and taking up arms in defence of radical economic transformation.