Pravin Jamnadas Gordhan

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...

Former Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan had also begun to block state-owned companies from donating through proxies to the ANC as part of his clean-up of the country's public finances Africa Confidential understands...

The strategy was also used to claim that the recently sacked Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan his deputy Mcebisi Jonas and the Treasury were controlled by 'white monopoly capital' and their interests...

He also claimed that he had sacked Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan to bring younger blood into government...

The association had done massive reputational damage to Bell Pottinger: a report circulating in the South African media purported to have been produced by the company referred to close links with the Gupta and the Zuma families its attempts to denigrate Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan and its use of social media accounts fake bloggers and false print titles in an attempt to divert attention away from the 355-page 'State capture' report published by the then Public Protector Thuli Madonsela in November...

His predecessor Pravin Gordhan had been on an investment 'road trip' when he was yanked back to South Africa and replaced by Gigaba (AC Vol 58 No 7 Omens and portents)...

Zuma blamed her for not overcoming regulatory hurdles but most had in fact been put up by the now dismissed Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan and the Treasury (AC Vol 58 No 8 Zuma's edifice starts to wobble)...

Pro-democracy forces brought tens of thousands of protestors into South Africa's streets last week following President Jacob Zuma's ousting of Pravin Gordhan from the Finance Ministry and his replacement with Malusi Gigaba...

The furore over the sudden recall from overseas and sacking of the internationally respected Pravin Gordhan and the appointment of the inexperienced Gigaba in his place hit the rand and investors' confidence hard...

Only the beleaguered judiciary and Pravin Gordhan's fiscal management stand between South Africa and economic doom...