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[email protected] SA is on a new Land Bank’s Nchocho decries slow transformation path and burying GROWTH BLUEPRINT the Gupta ghosts Luyolo Mkentane AND Bank chief executive TP Ncho- cho doesn’t mince his words when it comes to ramping up the slow trans- THE formation pace in the agriculture sector. And he is prepared to put SHAKE-UP Lmoney where his mouth is. We catch up with Nchocho at the bank’s headquarters at Centurion in Pretoria, following President Cyril Ramaphosa’s Sechaba ka’Nkosi recent State of the Nation address and the subsequent national Budget for 2018 tabled RESIDENT Cyril Ramaphosa this by former finance minister Malusi Gigaba. week drove the final nail into the In the Business Report interview, Ncho- already crumbling Gupta empire. cho makes references to the Ramaphosa Ramaphosa sacked Lynne Brown, and Gigaba speeches, and said he appreci- Faith Muthambi, Mosebenzi Zwane, ated the sense of optimism in them as they PDes van Rooyen and David Mahlobo, among addressed issues pertaining to growing the others, from his cabinet. Few eyes will shed economy, creating employment, transform- a drop over their departure. For while they Faith Muthambi, former minister of Public ation and improving the governance of made for some entertaining education on Service and Administration.