Ramotena Mabote

I’m late. Very late. The taxi drivers are on strike and blockading the M1. I’ve been granted a coveted interview with Reserve Bank Governor Tito Mboweni. He is stickler for time and I’m getting ready for a tongue-lashing. But the gods are smiling on me and Mboweni is sympathetic with me and mad at the taxis instead. The authorities, he says, should not allow taxi drivers to hold the country to ransom.