Former finance minister and SA Reserve Bank (Sarb) governor Tito Mboweni has died. He was 65.Tito Mboweni has bowed out and tributes are pouring in following the announcement of his passing. The former Finance Minister and Reserve Bank Governor, also served as the country’s first Labour Relations Minister.
Post the attainment of democracy. Workers have a lot to thank him for. His sudden and surprising death drew widespread tributes yesterday, appropriate for someone whose contribution across politics and economics in the development of the new South Africa has arguably been without parallel, outside of his old cohort President Cyril Ramaphosa.
Mboweni travelled a long road in politics and economics, starting as a radical who would not have been out of place in the modern Economic Freedom Fighters, but ending in the centre of political and economic orthodoxy. He was an unusual figure in African National Congress (ANC) politics; both enormously loyal and yet with a streak of independence that set him apart from many of his more tractable comrades.
His loyalty extended beyond his political home to his actual home in Tzaneen in Limpopo where he returned after his stint as finance minister to his farm where he famously posted images of his gargantuan “man of the people” stews that defied the laws of high cuisine. Mboweni had a large following on social media when he used to share images of his garlic-heavy chicken or pilchard stews.
Source: News365