Lets forget about USA and EU politics and looks at things closer to home. To start off the discussion lets look at what Mboweni said when dealing with the finances of the country:-
"Finance Minister Tito Mboweni says a discussion must begin on whether the government needs to retain control of all the assets it owns given the poor state of the national finances.
Mboweni has asked Minister of Public Enterprises 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 radio.
“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 the ruling ANC that oppose privatisation. Plans to restructure state power company Eskom are already being opposed by unions.
Mboweni said that the country should look toward merging its state-owned airlines to remove the need for duplicate boards and chief executives officers 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 SA Revenue Service will be appointed next week and a new board for the Public Investment Corporation, which manages the pensions of South African state workers, will be constituted within two weeks. Both institutions have been embroiled in scandals.
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 the 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, who is 60 years old.
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.”
So the question to be asked - how long will Mboweni last as Minister of Finance? I am afraid not very long. He has a string of enemies in the Political scene that would kill him off politically quickly/ So lets look at the actual political situation at present and see what will happen after the elections now barely 6 weeks away.
The ANC
The ANC is fighting an internal war of unbelievable intensity. The Zumanoids lost the battle when Ramaphosa beat Dlamini-Zuma as ANC leader by a narrow margin - but the fight back is vicious. The present trend showed that a lot of them could end up in jai;l because of state capture and bribery and corruption'
So their big agent - the ANC Secretary General - doctored the election list of ANC Parliament candidates to get the Zumanoids back in Parliament. Their ideal is to get Ramaphosa out as President after the elections and appoint Dlamini Zuma as President. That would protect them from ending up in jail where they really belong.
So the Zumanoids concocted a scheme that works as follows:-
* Cook the election lists so that the anti- Ramaphosa group in the Party can get control of the ANC in Parliament.
* Create a plephora of new political parties - all Zumanoid supporters - to syphon off votes from the ANC and then use them to help in Parliament to fight for control of the Party in Parliament
* Get the support of the EFF in their battle against crackdown of the crooks in the ANC - this is explained later in more detail.
* Undermine the DA vote by getting the Coloured to vote for the Good Party of Patricia de Lille and the White Supremist Freedom Front Plus.
The plan is working thus far and the battle has not been won by the Zumanoids yet - the voters may just sabotage it by thinking before they vote.
The EFF
Malema had a string of own problems insofar as bribery and corruption is concerned/ He ahs charges on that is still outstanding from 2012. Have to do with a Trust fund belonging to him getting kickbacks from road contracts of the Limpopo Government. He started abuilding a palatial residence in Sandtion but had to stop it when the story was exposed and charges laid.
He then got into trouble with SARS and the crook then in charge wrote of a huge percentage of the debt - he owed reportedly R16 million - bat got to pay only R1 million. When the crook at SARS were fired Malema went all out to prevent it from happening.
Now the crooks in the EFF got involved in the VBS scandal and they are indeed on thin ice,
So naturally - from being against Zuma - they have become the allies of the Zumanoids in the ANC. Once the ANC won their battle they will rejoin the ANC and fight with the Zumanoids because they do not want their leaders in jail.
The DA
The best thing that can happen to the Zumanoids is or the DA to lose support. So the following is strived for by them:-
* Get the Whites to vote for the Freedom Front Plus - a dinosaur party who thinks that the Government will get back to the Whites in future, All will then bring down the DA support in Parliament
* Forming the Good Party to syphon off Coloured Votes from the DA and get the support of the so-called Goods Party in Parliament to vote with them in a motion to dislodge Ramaphosa as President.
We are being duped by the Zumanoids to support Ramaphosa as President and getting into Parliament members who support their program of self-protection of their own interests - that is to keep themselves out if jail where they belong. In that they have the support of the present Public Protector as well.
Wish Mboweni would form a political party that we can trust - but he will not because he realized how the crooks took over the ANC and all structures in certain provinces.