Trevor Andrew Manuel

Finance Minister Trevor Manuel's determination to drive down the budget deficit puts strict limits on how much Mbeki's government can use state spending to address the inequalities of the apartheid past...

As economic imperatives increasingly define the political agenda Finance Minister Trevor Manuel and Trade and Industry Minister Alec Erwin grow in importance...

The relocation trend worries Mboweni and Finance Minister Trevor Manuel who concedes there are arguments both ways for primary foreign listings...

• Finance Minister Trevor Manuel displayed his empty pockets before a demonstrating crowd in Pretoria to show symbolically that the Treasury's cupboard was bare...

By the time government managers sat down with the unions to negotiate Finance Minister Trevor Manuel the cabinet's leading fiscal and monetary conservative had set the limit for a pay increase in his annual budget and parliament had approved it...

The most applauded decision was to leave the respected economic team of Trevor Manuel at Finance and Alec Erwin at Trade in place; there are few new stars in the line up...

And the SACP and Cosatu have yet to show they have the courage to mount anything other than verbal guerrilla warfare against government economic policy which is embodied in the policy of 'Growth Employment and Redistribution' (GEAR) supported by Mbeki and Finance Minister Trevor Manuel...

In 1997/98 provincial deficits amounted to one per cent of GDP whereas in 1998/99 the provinces collectively are set for a surplus of R600 million - 'a remarkable turnaround' according to Finance Minister Trevor Manuel although accumulated debt and interest costs remain high...

Finance Minister Trevor Manuel and his tax advisors try hard to balance these aims...

Finance Minister Trevor Manuel and Reserve Bank Governor Chris Stals reject calls to follow Malaysia's move to impose capital controls; they argue that South Africa's fundamentals - 5 per cent inflation low current account and budget deficits - will eventually convince people the rand is undervalued and bring in investment...