SA needs more leaders like Tito Mboweni, says COSATU
As the political fraternity, business community, and the rest of the country mourn the 65-year-old, Mboweni has been hailed as an economic policy innovator and a champion of labour rights.
FILE: Finance Minister Tito Mboweni ahead of 2020 National Budget speech in Parliament, Cape Town. Mboweni passed away on 12 October 2024. Picture: GCIS
JOHANNESBURG - The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) said the country needs more leaders cut from the same cloth as former finance minister and South African Reserve Bank (SARB) governor, Tito Mboweni.
Mboweni died at Milpark Hospital in Johannesburg almost a week ago after battling a short illness.
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As the political fraternity, business community, and the rest of the country mourn the 65-year-old, Mboweni has been hailed as an economic policy innovator and a champion of labour rights.
The African National Congress (ANC) in Limpopo held a memorial service for Mboweni in Tzaneen on Thursday night, with COSATU and the South African Communist Party (SACP) provincial leaders also in attendance.
COSATU’s Lesiba Monyaki has called on other politicians to lead by Mboweni’s example.
"We need cadres who will not loot from the poor but ensure service delivery to the community. In comrade Tito Mboweni, the federation agrees that we’ve lost a selfless activist, a dedicated and focused soldier. Surely, workers will remember him for his revolutionary contribution to the labour community and economic development of South Africa."