Pravin Jamnadas Gordhan

The background to Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan’s budget speech on 27 February was grim (see Box Gordhan's budget balm)...

Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan managed to calm business and assuage the public with an assured budget speech...

Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan represents South Africa at the Group of 20 and BRICS finance ministers often gather on the sidelines of G-20 meetings to build joint policy interventions...

So after lengthy discussions on the plan to set up a BRICS development bank South Africa’s Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan sounded relieved when he announced: ‘It’s done...

Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan the Governor of the Development Bank of Southern Africa is finalising changes to the bank’s mandate that will see it operate beyond the Southern African Development Community...

In Zuma’s cabinet the ‘centrists’ Manuel and Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan are battling for control of economic policy with the ‘leftists’ Ebrahim Patel and Rob Davies...

After ministers spent several weeks minimising the economic damage of the Marikana shootings Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan admitted that the unrest could undermine growth and investment...

Economic Development Minister Ebrahim Patel Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan Minister in charge of the National Planning Commission Trevor Manuel and Minister for Public Enterprises Malusi Gigaba all want control of overall policy...

The centrists are led by Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan and Trevor Manuel head of the National Planning Commission...

The argument mirrors the ideological battle between on the one hand Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan and his ally Trevor Manuel the National Planning Commission Chairman both of whom hold conventional Keynesian economic views and on the other hand their ideological rivals Economic Development Minister Ebrahim Patel and Rob Davies the Trade and Industry Minister representing the left wing of the cabinet (AC Vol 52 No 5 It's all about jobs)...