Ebrahim Patel

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...

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...

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)...

Green jobs Economic Development Minister Ebrahim Patel has long wanted to create jobs in the ‘green economy’...

Zuma’s plan is in essence the same new growth path unveiled by Economic Development Minister Ebrahim Patel in October last year (AC Vol 51 No 21)...

What to do is notoriously disputed; left-leaning ministers led by Economic Development Minister Ebrahim Patel and Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies want to abandon economic orthodoxy and take action fast...

Economic Development Minister Ebrahim Patel has been drafting the outlines of an economic policy saying that it is his job...

Ebrahim Patel the Economic Development Minister and former union leader is pushing his own more leftist growth plan which the unions say will tackle unemployment...

Ministers within it – Ebrahim Patel (Economic Development) Pravin Gordhan (Finance) Rob Davies (Trade and Industry) Trevor Manuel (National Planning) and Hogan – vigorously defend their own turf...

Ebrahim Patel and the leaders of Cosatu and the SACP reject this scheme on the grounds that it would create a two-tier labour market...

They wanted Ebrahim Patel a former Cosatu official who is now Minister of Economic Development to take overall charge of development planning...