Browsing: Pravin Gordhan

South Africa’s political landscape is shifting almost by the hour. The gloves are off in a power struggle that pits President Jacob Zuma against a group of reformers, led by finance minister Pravin Gordhan. It is a high-stakes drama that has profound, long-term

Standard Bank Research said the “rand sacrificed most of the gains it had made since the end of January”, which analysts on Monday said was due to a boiling point in politics involving President Jacob Zuma and finance minister Pravin Gordhan

Although nothing was said directly in the 2016 budget about the privatisation of state-owned enterprises, “something is coming”, according to economist JP Landman. At the same time, he said common sense seems to indicate that

Finance minister Pravin Gordhan said on Friday there is a group of people that are not interested in South Africa’s economic stability and who seemingly want to disrupt institutions and destroy reputations. In a day of high drama, in which it

Over the past few weeks, I have worked with the national treasury to deliver a budget that reinforces South Africa’s fiscal credibility and outlines the measures we will take to improve economic growth and tackle our challenges of poverty, inequality and unemployment

Finance minister Pravin Gordhan threatened to resign ahead of his crucial budget address over an alleged clash with South African Revenue Service commissioner Tom Moyane and ultimately a “proxy war” with President Jacob Zuma, reports said on Friday

Energy regulator Nersa has postponed its announcement on the Eskom tariff hike decision until Tuesday, following finance minister Pravin Gordhan’s swipe at the power utility on Wednesday. Gordhan said at his press briefing ahead of his

This afternoon, finance minister Pravin Gordhan will arguably give the most significant speech of his political career when he delivers the budget for 2016/2017 in parliament. Economically speaking

For the second year in a row, the national budget has provided few details on a project to connect municipalities to broadband technology. Finance minister Pravin Gordhan delivered the 2016 national budget speech in parliament