Pravin Jamnadas Gordhan

Budget 2017: Revenue falls as risks rise On 22 February Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan is to read his budget to Parliament which will have to fund the biggest revenue shortfall for over a decade...

Gordhan versus ZumaFinance Minister Pravin Gordhan's efforts to stabilise public finances have brought him into direct conflict with Zuma and his powerful allies...

Topping the list of officials that Zuma plans to remove are: • Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan who with his Deputy Mcebisi Jonas and Director General of Treasury Lungisa Fuzile have blocked pressure for more patronage projects (AC Vol 57 No 24 Gordhan in ratings war); • Tourism Minister Derek Hanekom who led the rebellion against Zuma at the NEC; • Science and Technology Minister Naledi Pandor; • Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi; • National Education Minister and leader of the South African Communist Party (SACP) Blade Nzimande who made a scathing attack on Zuma on 9 December...

He and other retired senior generals gave the ANC a memorandum in March supporting Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan and calling for a 'dignified exit' for Zuma (AC Vol 57 No 8 Zuma's many foes mobilise)...

Prominent supporters included Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi Public Works Minister Thulas Nxesi Science and Technology Minister Naledi Pandor Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan Chief Whip Jackson Mthembu former Chief Whip Mathole Motshekga ex-Speaker Max Sisulu and former Reserve Bank Governor Tito Mboweni...

This they say would enable him finally to sack his governmental bugbear Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan and get away with it...

That's a battleground where he is losing to Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan (AC Vol 57 No 21 Stalwarts push for Zuma's exit)...

The beleaguered National Director of Public Prosecutions Shaun Abrahams withdrew what were widely seen as trumped-up charges against Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan (AC Vol 57 No 11 Guptas' export drive)...

This month the fight between President Jacob Zuma and his diminishing band of defenders on the one hand and on the other the gutsy former Public Protector Thulisile Madonsela and Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan entered its critical phase...

Some of Zuma's adversaries – such as Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan Energy Minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson and Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies – were listed as staying in their jobs...