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    Home»News»Mboweni questions need to hold onto all state assets

    Mboweni questions need to hold onto all state assets

    News By Agency Staff25 March 2019
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    Finance minister Tito Mboweni

    Finance minister Tito Mboweni said a discussion must begin on whether the government needs to retain control of all the assets it currently owns given the poor state of the national finances.

    Mboweni has asked public enterprises minister Pravin Gordhan for a list of non-core state assets and has been provided with an “extensive list”, he said while being interviewed and answering questions from callers on Power FM.

    “One should be careful not to elevate state ownership to a religion,” he said.

    Mboweni, a former central bank governor who took office in October, has repeatedly questioned the logic of holding onto loss-making state companies, raising the ire of the labour union allies of ANC that oppose privatisation.

    I am on public record saying it is time for old people to retire and it is time for young people to run the country

    Mboweni said that the country should look toward merging its state-owned airlines to remove the need for duplicate boards and CEOs and could sell the explosives unit of state arms company Denel to AECI, a privately owned explosives company.

    The finance minister also said that a new commissioner of the South African Revenue Service will be appointed next week and a new board for the Public Investment Corp, which manages the pensions of South African state workers, will be constituted within two weeks. Both institutions have been embroiled in scandals.

    ‘Treasonous’

    Once the current set of challenges facing the national treasury have been resolved, Mboweni said he would like to return to the private sector. Mboweni has served as chairman of AngloGold Ashanti and as an adviser to Goldman Sachs Group.

    “I am on public record saying it is time for old people to retire and it is time for young people to run the country,” said Mboweni, 60.

    Mboweni also called for stronger action against those who committed corrupt acts during the tenure of former President Jacob Zuma, saying that what happened at the national revenue service was “treasonous”.  — Reported by Antony Sguazzin and Paul Vecchiatto, (c) 2019 Bloomberg LP

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