Riyaz Patel
The South African Communist Party (SACP) has reacted with “serious concern” to the contents and “sudden” release of Finance Minister Tito Mboweni’s Economic Strategy Blueprint, made public late Tuesday.
In what could be viewed as a veiled grouse the SACP said it’ll “respond in detail both to the process that was followed by Mboweni, and substantively to the contents of the document.”
“For the record, the SACP has consistently campaigned against neo-liberal policy regime measures. It is this economic policy regime that has plunged the world into economic crisis and our country into the undesirable economic situation it finds itself in today,” the Party, cloaking it’s criticism, charged in a statement Wednesday.
It added that it has “noted with serious concern, from our Alliance policy making point of view, and primary mandating position in relation to deployed public representatives, the sudden release” of Mboweni’s economic growth strategy
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