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Pravin Jamnadas Gordhan

Date of Birth: 12 April 1949
Place of Birth: Durban


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The Gupta factor

Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan’s budget allocated R350 million over three years to upgrade ministerial estates including an executive military health facility for the president cabinet and visiting VIPs – at R62 million over three years...


Dalai Lama dumped again

Minister of Finance Pravin Gordhan said the country must pursue long-term investments that allow capital flows to remain in South Africa...


Party unity trumps national reforms

Their centrist opponents led by Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan and National Planning Minister Trevor Manuel insist that many popular short-term measures would only make the long-term outlook worse; they insist as they persuaded ex-President Thabo Mbeki to insist on keeping South Africa’s policies compatible with those of the countries that buy its goods and invest in its industries...


Battle of the plans

Yet Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan Manuel’s successor has steered a ‘growth path’ in tandem with the central bank the South African Reserve Bank which includes the strict monetary policy to which Cosatu and the ANC’s other partner the South African Communist Party (SACP) strenuously object...


Postponing the policies

In his opening address Zuma and later Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan had insisted there would be no economic policy shifts at the conference but that didn’t stop the intense and sometimes raucous exchanges...


Taking sides in the big debate

Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan has already said that while there is 'broad agreement on the need for a stable and competitive exchange rate' there is debate about the 'instruments and tactics to achieve this'...


Zuma’s first-term casualties

Ministers within it – Ebrahim Patel (Economic Development) Pravin Gordhan (Finance) Rob Davies (Trade and Industry) Trevor Manuel (National Planning) and Hogan – vigorously defend their own turf...


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