Pravin Jamnadas Gordhan

The run on the rand in December was followed by another sharp fall last month when there was speculation that Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan would face arrest by the National Prosecuting Authority on charges that he had set up an unauthorised intelligence unit at the South African Revenue Service when he was its National Commissioner...

The relationship between the Guptas and the Zuma family is one reason political insiders are saying that Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan who is ultimately responsible for the Treasury is under so much pressure from the the Hawks the elite investigation department of the South African Police Service...

' The opposition Economic Freedom Fighters and the Democratic Alliance have questioned the cabinet's appointment of Zwane alongside Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan to 'interact' with the big four banks in South Africa over their decision to cut ties with Oakbay Investments the holding company of various Gupta family businesses (AC Vol 57 No 8 Guptas fly out)...

It ran through the familiar charge sheet: December's damaging and arbitrary sacking of Nhlanhla Nene as Finance Minister; the orchestrated harassment of current and previous Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan by the Hawks the specialist police unit...

Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan went to London Boston and New York from 7-11 March to persuade investors ratings agencies and the world that South Africa is still a safe bet...

Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan delivered a balanced budget on 24 February which seeks to curtail public spending introduces public-private partnerships for some of the ailing state-owned enterprises and places public financial discipline and accountability centre-stage...

The day after he read out the budget Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan signalled his displeasure with the Guptas by refusing to appear on a South African Broadcasting Corporation television breakfast show on 25 February because it was sponsored by the Gupta-owned newspaper The New Age...

• Guptas 'to leave SA' AC Vol 57 No 5 page 12Since publication of this report representatives of the Gupta family contacted Africa Confidential to say that the family are not in the process of moving to Dubai nor have any key family members settled there already to repeat the denial that they played any part in the decision to dismiss Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene in December 2015 and to say that his successor Pravin Gordhan did not refuse to appear on SABC's post-budget breakfast because the minister disapproved of the Gupta family but because ministry policy requires rotation of broadcasting appearance acceptances by ministers...

Following the firing of Nene in December it was the business leaders acting in concert with moderates in the African National Congress who forced Zuma at political gunpoint to reverse his appointment of a stooge as finance minister and re-instate the highly-respected Pravin Gordhan...

The contract of the new South African Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan runs only until this year's local government elections Africa Confidential hears from Treasury sources...

Although Zuma moved to mitigate the damage caused by sacking Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene by restoring Pravin Gordhan to a job he should perhaps never have been moved from there was lasting damage to the country's reputation and the rand which will be hard to fix (AC Vol 56 No 25 Jacob Zuma's costly week)...