Rob Haydn Davies

Patel has a close relationship with Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies (an SACP man) who is cobbling together his own industrial policy...

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...

Officials say ministers will elaborate details of job-creation initiatives during the parliamentary season with Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies explaining the new Industrial Policy Action Plan...

Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies championed by the Left is working on a new industrial policy...

Supporters of Cosatu and the SACP are Ebrahim Patel the new Economic Development Minister and Rob Davies the Trade and Industry Minister...

Many responsibilities overlap between the economic departments and there are some political differences between centrists such as Manuel and Gordhan and leftists such as Patel and the new Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies...

For his new initiative the President turned in 2004 to Rob Davies an academic economist and member of the SACP Central Executive Committee...

The deputy Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies was re-elected; he was appointed by Mbeki in 2004 to appease the left which has vigorously criticised the government's lack of an industrial policy...