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Pravin Jamnadas Gordhan

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


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Cyril presses his advantage

One way to start winning back the hearts and minds of business and investors would be to reinstate Pravin Gordhan as Finance Minister in place of Malusi Gigaba but this may have to wait...


Pushing Zuma to the exit

Pravin Gordhan the former Finance Minister sacked by Zuma would become Minister of Public Enterprises; Joel Netshitenzhe former policy advisor to Nelson Mandela Thabo Mbeki and a Ramaphosa strategist would be Minister in the Presidency for monitoring and evaluation...


Snagged by the Guptas' global reach

' Pravin Gordhan South Africa's former Finance Minister reported last year that the country's anti-money laundering watchdog had marked 72 international transactions as suspicious over the previous four years...


Mabuza changes the race

Mkhize has the advantage of being a Zulu and has a long-standing relationship with Zuma despite tensions in recent years over the firing of two finance ministers Nhlanhla Nene and Pravin Gordhan (AC Vol 58 No 8 Zuma's edifice starts to wobble Gigaba raises sights still higher & New script in KwaZulu-Natal)...


Balancing the good cop with the bad

) that the brothers had paid them for a report on a 'rogue' unit in the South African Revenue Service which was used to prepare the ground for the dismissal of Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan in March (AC Vol 58 No 8 Zuma's edifice starts to wobble)...


KPMG feels the Gupta heat

The firm also disowned a confidential report they prepared for the South African Revenue Services (SARS) in 2014 which stated that former finance minister Pravin Gordhan knew or ought to have known that a rogue investigations unit within the agency was spying on President Jacob Zuma and his allies (AC Vol 55 No 23 Hard times for the revenue service)...


'Dirty tricks' target Cyril

Several top officials at the Treasury seen as bulwarks against raids on state funds have been sacked while former Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan has faced renewed prosecution bids over a so-called 'rogue unit' in the tax collection office...


Can the usurpers unite?

His targets are the most outspoken MPs such as sacked Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan former Tourism Minister Derek Hanekom KwaZulu-Natal MP Makhosi Khoza and former Ekurhuleni mayor Mondli Gungubele...


ANC dilemma deepens

DisasterAt the same event former Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan warned that South Africa could be plunged into a decade of disaster unless urgent action was taken to root out the vicious cycle of patronage and corruption that has pushed the country into economic recession...


The great growth divide

For much of that period President Jacob Zuma had been indirectly attacking the then Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan's efforts to cut corruption and rein in state spending on mismanaged projects...


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