GOVERNMENT spokesman Jimmy Manyi yesterday launched a vitriolic attack on Nedbank chairman Reuel Khoza after Khoza's statement that "our political leadership is degenerating".
Manyi said Khoza should "highlight and emphasise new possibilities, rather than attempting to discredit government".
"If you consider yourself a thinking person, that is the job of thinking people, to ensure the success of their government," he said.
"You are duty-bound to help government anticipate a bright future for all South Africans . "
Khoza said in his chairman's statement of the bank's annual results that government was "fast losing the checks and balances necessary to prevent a recurrence of the past".
"It would help if Dr Khoza were to tell us all exactly which checks and balances are being lost so "fast" and which recurrence of the past - and which past - he fears so much," Manyi said.