Connect the dots – Gordhan

tre of future policy-making. The rand is being captured by a few at the expense of the many.”

He said there was confusion over radical economic transformation as some articulated it in a particular way, while others explained it to “mislead people”.

President Jacob Zuma has of late been at the forefront of calls for radical economic transformation, including the expropriation of land without compensation

Gordhan warned against corruption, saying that those with their hands in the cookie jar needed to know that “there’s going to be serious consequences” in the same way that Brazil has jailed government leaders found guilty of corruption.

Late last year a former speaker of Brazil’s lower house was arrested on charges of money laundering, tax evasion, among others.

“We have a great country to look after. It doesn’t belong to one family … I have a stake in it … I have to make sure that it remains true to the constitution of the country …” said Gordhan.

“If only we can get over the culture of corruption both in the public and private sector. Those are resources which should be made available to fight poverty.”

At the weekend it emerged that some ANC leaders had approached “elders” and statesman, including Mangosuthu Buthelezi, to persuade Zuma to step down.

Spokesman for Minister in the Presidency Jeff Radebe’s presidential campaign, Sipho Masuku, said senior church leaders and former state presidents from across the continent had also been approached.

Addressing IFP supporters during a by-election campaign in Nquthu, northern KwaZulu-Natal on Sunday, Buthelezi revealed that he had been requested to speak to Zuma “in my capacity as an elder”.

“But as I have said in Parliament, the president won’t listen to me. If he won’t listen to the stalwarts of his own party or the cry of the people of South Africa, he surely won’t heed the wisdom of Buthelezi,” said Buthelezi.

Buthelezi said the ANC should deal with the issue of Zuma because “this problem was created by the ANC and it can only be solved by the ANC”.

ANC spokesperson Zizi Kodwa said that there had been no approach to Buthelezi or other statesmen to ask Zuma to step down.

Zuma’s spokesperson, Bongani Ngqulunga, was not available for comment.