Investor roadshows should be based on absolute truths

FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube’s global investment roadshows fit into my long held belief that the most dangerous person for a country is not the incompetent, it is the person who is completely and totally convinced that wrong is right.

It is also completely true that as nation we can survive our fools (as said by Marcus Tillius Cicero 106 to 43 BC) but we cannot survive an educated man who has corrupted his professional beliefs to do things he doesn’t believe or can’t be reasonably be expected to believe.

It is even possible for the minister to believe he is coming with a bag full of deals.

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