TITO TITUS MBOWENI IS TRIED AND TRIED

The new Minister of Finance, Tito Titus Mboweni is tried and tested in any imaginable field - he rose through the ranks of the ANC, spending time in exile, to serving in the national executive committee of the liberation movement.

After the unbanning of the ANC he became part of the Economics Sub-

Committee and went on to serve in the first democratic cabinet of Nelson Mandela as Minister of Labour where pioneered South Africa's post apartheid labour relations legislation which continues in operation to this day.

Analysts reckon he was a key member of Mandela's Dream Team of economic pragmatists, who they herald as smart and greatly admired.

Mboweni was later appointed the eighth governor of the South African Reserve Bank and the first black South African to occupy that position. 

As Minister of Finance Tito Mboweni will be put in charge of South Africa's R1,5 trillion national budget.

Under the difficult political and economic circumstances, only a tried and tested cadre of the calibre of Mboweni would do the job.

Tito Mboweni is tried and tested.