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FINANCE Minister Enoch Godongwana is unobtrusive and boring, the quintessential grey man of politics.
That’s not a criticism. Finance ministers the world over too often strive to be sparklingly witty, engagingly flamboyant. Such behaviour might be a deep-seated response to their colleagues generally hating them, much in the way that feckless adolescents hate their parents for not readily doling out large dollops of cash on demand.
A BusinessLIVE editorial on Godongwana’s Wednesday Budget statement expressed relief that there were “good and sober technocrats”
