A Twitter spat between finance minister Tito Mboweni and the DA shadow minister of finance, Geordin Hill-Lewis, has escalated after the opposition party's urgent application to stop Mboweni from bailing out SA Airways (SAA)
Finance minister Tito Mboweni said the DA's application to stop him funding SAA's rescue might be a 'trivial/small issue' that would waste the court's time.A Twitter spat between finance minister Tito Mboweni and the DA shadow minister of finance, Geordin Hill-Lewis, has escalated after the opposition party's
urgent application to stop Mboweni from bailing out SA Airways was made at the high court in Pretoria. The DA announced at the weekend it had applied to interdict Mboweni from bailing out the national carrier by using"emergency funding" not budgeted for in “exceptional” and “unforeseen” circumstances.“Yet another public bailout of SAA does not meet the definition of an unforeseen emergency.
Courts are very important, powerful,respected and central institutions with decorum over the ages.They have developed doctrines such as=‘Do not waste the court’s time with trivial/small issues’. So theMboweni also said the bailout existed nowhere else but in Hill-Lewis' mind, and that he would have to provide evidence for the allegation., this bailout thing you talk about does not exist. It only exists in your mind. Where is the evidence for this allegation. I do not know about this.
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