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Pravin Jamnadas Gordhan

Date of Birth: 12 April 1949
Place of Birth: Durban


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The state of Zuma’s nation

Limpopo Premier Cassel Mathale is furious that citing maladministration Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan has sent in a team from the Treasury to run five Limpopo government departments...


Zuma goes for broke

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...


Selling the state

Finance Minister Pravin Jamnadas Gordhan has his own ideas for those companies under his purview and plans a Development Finance Council to control them...


The Gordhan knot

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...


Suddenly, the nationalisation talk gets serious

They object to the staffing of key economic departments by ‘minority’ appointees such as the SA Reserve Bank Governor (Gill Marcus) Finance Minister (Pravin Jamnadas Gordhan) and Economic Development Minister (Ebrahim Patel) and they oppose the award of public-sector contracts to ‘minority’ interests...


Election results keep Zuma in contention

Manyi deplores the high proportion of minorities in the ANC leadership and senior public service management particularly in economic portfolios for instance Ebrahim Patel (Economic Development Minister) Pravin Gordhan (Finance Minister) Rob Davies (Trade and Industry Minister) and Gill Marcus (Governor of the Reserve Bank)...


It's all about jobs

Job creation and social services would be government’s top political measures said Finance Minister Pravin Jamnadas Gordhan in his budget speech on 24 February...


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