By SIMON MUNTEMBASOUTH Africa Finance Minister Tito Mboweni, has deleted his tweets and backtracked on his attacks against Zambia.Mr Mboweni, who is also former Governor of the Reserve Bank, deleted his scathing tweets following wide condemnation and reprimand from President Cyril Ramaphosa.The tweets were in relation to the sacking of Bank of Zambia Governor Dr Denny Kalyalya.Mr Mboweni took a bizarre route of threatening to mobilise and unseat President Edgar Lungu.He tweeted in response to the announced sacking of Dr Kalyalya that: “Presidents in Africa must stop this nonsense of waking up in the morning and firing a central bank Governor, you cannot do that. This is not some fiefdom of yours! Your personal property?”Mr Mboweni followed through with another even more undiplomatic and relationship damaging socio media post.He demanded that reasons for sacking of Dr Kalyalya be availed failure to which, he would mobilise against President Lungu.The social media post which he has since deleted stated that, “why do we do these things as Africans, The Zambian […]
Mboweni deletes offensive tweets
