{"id":1294,"date":"2012-08-30T11:45:11","date_gmt":"2012-08-30T11:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=1294"},"modified":"2012-08-30T11:45:11","modified_gmt":"2012-08-30T11:45:11","slug":"south-africas-culture-of-greed-and-corruption-finance-minister-gordhan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=1294","title":{"rendered":"South Africa’s ‘culture of greed and corruption’ – Finance Minister Gordhan"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pravin Gordhan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

South Africans need to work together to prevent the country from giving in to a culture of greed and corruption, Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan said on Thursday.<\/p>\n

“Let me tell you that from where I stand and what I see, this [corruption] is a disease that a hospital or health system cannot solve,” he said at the Discovery Invest Leadership Summit in Johannesburg.<\/p>\n

The millions of honest people in the country needed to have their voices heard.<\/p>\n

Gordhan said the country’s leadership and its people had to fight the underlying factors that influenced corruption, such as greed and selfishness.<\/p>\n

“If we don’t do that we give in to culture that says ‘I want everything now. I want to be a millionaire now… I want the best car even if I can’t afford it’. We are creating a wrong type of culture.”<\/p>\n

South African leaders, whether they came from politics and business, needed to be humble, Gordhan said.<\/p>\n

“In South Africa we have too many pretenders, who say one thing in public, but do other things in private.”<\/p>\n

The country needed to be careful about “over-hyping” the ANC’s national conference in Mangaung at the end of the year.<\/p>\n

“Mangaung will come… We must be careful not to over-hype what are normal political contests in any society around the globe,” Gordhan said.<\/p>\n

“It will have its own South African character, it will have its own South African noises, but at the end of the day it is a political contest. That’s what democracy is about.”<\/p>\n

South African leaders needed to talk more instead of “shouting at each other in the public space”.<\/p>\n

Gordhan said the country needed greater economic and political inclusivity.<\/p>\n

“Unless the world and South Africa find a solution to economic inclusivity, combined with really serious and deep political inclusivity, we will have serious faultlines.<\/p>\n

“Nations will fail if they have non-inclusive economic and political institutions.”<\/p>\n

He said the lack of development for small companies and businesses was a problem that needed to be rectified.<\/p>\n

At the beginning of his address, Gordhan called for a moment of silence for the 34 Lonmin mineworkers shot dead during a clash with police in the North West on August 16. – Sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

South Africans need to work together to prevent the country from giving in to a culture of greed and corruption, Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan said on Thursday. “Let me tell you that from where I stand and what I see, this [corruption] is a disease that a hospital or health system cannot solve,” he said … Continue reading “South Africa’s ‘culture of greed and corruption’ – Finance Minister Gordhan”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[64,219,965,964,12250],"class_list":["post-1294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-anc","tag-corruption","tag-greed","tag-pravin-gordhan","tag-south-africa"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1294"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1297,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294\/revisions\/1297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}