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Sikonathi Mantshantsha answers 20 Questions

 Scorpio and Business Maverick award-winning journalist, Sikonathi Mantshantsha, answers our questions.

Sikonathi Mantshantsha

Scorpio and business maverick journalist

The Richest Man in Babylon by George S Clason. 

Winning the Sanlam Financial Journalist of the Year 2017.

Making payroll.

The Good, The Bad, And the Ugly. I just love the tension and the wit in the partnership of convenience between the bounty hunters Tuco and Blondie.

Xi Xinping, the Chinese president. 

The possibility of a totally failed state.

Ability to quickly grasp new languages.

She shall remain nameless.

That, too, shall stay on the phone.

PSG Group founder Jannie Mouton.

All those supposed public servants who sold South Africa’s future for a few Gupta pennies and the other thieves feasting on corruption.

I’m not being hanged.

Three hours a teller at a Nedbank branch in Sandton.

I have not a clue.

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

I would instead kill off a few ministries, including those of Sports, Arts & Culture; Small Business Development, merging them into Basic Education and to Trade & Industry; and also merge Police with Defence and Home Affairs into one. The department of Women … has no place in the government. 

Telling it like it is.