Nhlanhla Musa Nene

Zuma learned the limits of his power when he was forced to abandon plans to replace the then Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene with David van Rooyen and ended up re-appointing Gordhan (AC 56 No 25 Jacob Zuma's costly week)...

Zuma has been gunning for Gordhan ever since he was obliged by the economic and business community as well as ANC leaders to reinstate him after his disastrous sacking of Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene last December (AC Vol 56 No 25 Jacob Zuma's costly week)...

The deal was concluded in mid-December just after President Jacob Zuma had sacked Nhlanhla Nene from the Finance portfolio and tried to appoint his ally Des van Rooyen instead...

Business circles have been buzzing with reports about those companies which made a bonanza as the currency crashed in the wake of the crisis caused by President Jacob Zuma sacking Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene last December (AC Vol 56 No 25 Jacob Zuma's costly week)...

Wide-ranging discussions to which Africa Confidential had access concluded that although Zuma had been significantly weakened since he caused an economic emergency by sacking Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene on 9 December he had no viable exit strategy and no intention of stepping down voluntarily...

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...

Earlier London's Financial Times reported that two weeks before Zuma sacked Gordhan's successor and predecessor as Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene on 9 December the Guptas had had a meeting with Deputy Finance Minister Mcebisi Jonas and offered him Nene's job...

Mkhize played a key role in reversing the firing of Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene in December and is counted as a key player in the rational core of the ANC that averted disaster on the date now widely known as '9/12' (AC Vol 56 No 25 Jacob Zuma's costly week)...

The decision follows an unwelcome increase in publicity about their relations with Zuma and his circle after he sacked Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene on 9 December...

• 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...

Before he was sacked in December Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene made two new allocations for infrastructure in his November Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement...