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The Finance Minister Who Is a Star—In the Kitchen

South Africa’s Tito Mboweni shares meal photos with his Twitter followers, including people who prefer he spend more time fixing the national economy

Gabriele Steinhauser

and

Thandi Ntobela

South African Finance Minister Tito Mboweni arriving at Parliament in February to deliver his 2019 budget speech in Cape Town. Photo: RODGER BOSCH/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images

JOHANNESBURG—South Africa’s finance minister stirs controversy, especially in the kitchen.

Tito Mboweni, a former central-bank governor, came out of retirement last year to help resolve the country’s simmering economic crisis. Off-hours, the rotund 60-year-old shares his cooking secrets with more than 440,000 Twitter followers, whipping up feeds that are part Martha Stewart, part Alan Greenspan.

The Finance Minister Who Is a Star—In the Kitchen

South Africa’s Tito Mboweni shares meal photos with his Twitter followers, including people who prefer he spend more time fixing the national economy

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