Trevor Andrew Manuel

Minister in the Presidency for the National Planning Commission Trevor Manuel argues that firms struggling against the Chinese must ‘deal with’ the challenges...

A furious row has erupted in cabinet between the Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Maite Nkoana-Mashabane and her counterpart at National Planning Trevor Manuel...

Economic Development Minister Ebrahim Patel Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan Minister in charge of the National Planning Commission Trevor Manuel and Minister for Public Enterprises Malusi Gigaba all want control of overall policy...

The centrists are led by Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan and Trevor Manuel head of the National Planning Commission...

The argument mirrors the ideological battle between on the one hand Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan and his ally Trevor Manuel the National Planning Commission Chairman both of whom hold conventional Keynesian economic views and on the other hand their ideological rivals Economic Development Minister Ebrahim Patel and Rob Davies the Trade and Industry Minister representing the left wing of the cabinet (AC Vol 52 No 5 It's all about jobs)...

Technocrats in the government such as Finance Minister Pravin Jamnadas Gordhan and Minister in the Presidency Trevor Manuel will be trying to manage the New Growth Path economic package and the introduction of the elaborate New Development Plan...

Mortgaging capital investment The government wants state companies to partner with local and foreign private companies in imitation of the public-private partnerships of Britain’s ex-Prime Minister (and close friend of South Africa’s former Finance Minister Trevor Manuel) Gordon Brown...

Trevor Manuel now Minister in the Presidency for the National Planning Commission is also looking at how state companies should fit into long-term national development...

Within the government there are at least three camps: the centrists Finance Minister Pravin Jamnadas Gordhan and National Planning Commission Chairman Trevor Manuel who want to cut the burden of state companies on the Treasury; the leftists Economic Development Minister Ebrahim Patel and Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies who want the companies to spearhead a state-led development strategy; and Public Enterprises Minister Malusi Gigaba and Mineral Resources Minister Susan Shabangu who want to run their own reform programme without interference from the plethora of committees and commissions examining the issue...

Senior ministers such as Gordhan Susan Shabangu (Mineral Resources) and Trevor Manuel (National Planning) have said that nationalisation is not ANC or government policy...

If Trevor Manuel the National Planning Minister becames the new head of the International Monetary Fund Zuma could replace him with parliamentary Speaker Max Sisulu a scion of the powerful Sisulu family who missed out on a cabinet post after working hard to get Zuma elected...