PETER ATTARD MONTALTO: Backlash against Mboweni is based on misconception of his powers

Government employee pensions ultimately are held in trust for the workers and are not public property

What exactly is the point of a budget? This question always seems to be lost.

There is a strange view, always before the event: everyone pleads with the finance minister to do this or that — some particular structural reform. Then afterwards, particularly this year, there is a backlash against the finance minister for not “staying in his lane”. It was the same last year with the “Tito paper”.

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