South Africa’s new finance minister has pledged to “radically transform” his country’s economy, signalling a dramatic swing to the left less than 48 hours after taking up his post. Malusi Gigaba was appointed after president Jacob Zuma sacked his widely respected predecessor, Pravin Gordhan, in an overnight cabinet purge last week. The move, late on Thursday night, triggered a political crisis, pitching the ruling African National Congress party into chaos. Wealth redistribution is presumably a coded phrase for stepping up White dispossession https://t.co/5cN4Uk95p7 — Kevin MacDonald (@TOOEdit) April 1, 2017 The ANC, which came to power in South Africa’s first free elections in 1994, now faces one of its biggest tests since leading the struggle against the apartheid regime. Radical economic…