Trevor Andrew Manuel

Two politicians – South Africa’s highly effective Finance Minister Trevor Manuel and France’s forthright Cooperation Minister Jean-Marie Bockel – are adding to the pressure on international institutions to do more to regulate financial abuses such as transfer pricing and mispricing which facilitate the illicit transfer of more than US$50 billion a year out of Africa...

Trevor Manuel told the dull-sounding Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development Forum on Tax Administration in Cape Town that it is ‘a contradiction to support development assistance yet turn a blind eye to actions by multinationals and others that undermine the tax base of a developing country...

The leftists want the Treasury to redistribute the budget surpluses which Finance Minister Trevor Manuel has run up in the past two financial years...

Zuma's advisor Mo Shaik said that there was 'a great role' for the much admired Finance Minister Trevor Manuel if he had the flexibility to shift to a 'period of heightened implementation' of a new economic policy under Zuma...

Industrial policy has hitherto been run from the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) while macro-economic policy comes under the Finance Ministry and its head Trevor Manuel...

Finance Minister Trevor Manuel said the Employment Equity Act was on balance the best method and he wanted tougher monitoring of the system: 'The act in practice is frequently very poorly used...

At the 2002 conference after six years out of politics he came a close second to Finance Minister Trevor Manuel...

In Africa South Africa's Finance Minister Trevor Manuel is probably Brown's closest kindred spirit: the two talk regularly and there is real mutual respect and occasional joshing...

Significantly Liu's fellow panellists South African Finance Minister Trevor Manuel and his counterpart from Senegal Abdoulaye Diop stoutly defended China Exim's operations...

The most neutral comment came from South Africa's Finance Minister Trevor Manuel who said that political leaders should not rush to judgement: 'We must not behave like a kangaroo court'...

On 21 February Finance Minister Trevor Manuel dished out tax cuts paid off apartheid-era debt and boosted public spending on almost everything from welfare grants to police from teachers to infrastructure for the 2010 World Cup as well as more water and electrification projects...