Pravin Jamnadas Gordhan

Ramaphosa's other key ally Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan may switch jobs again as part of a plan to collapse the Public Enterprises ministry and parcel out the entities that it controls to other ministers...

The Treasury wants to sell off ineffective SOEs but the DPE under Pravin Gordhan more sensitive to leftist sentiment in the ANC tripartite alliance is pushing for more bailouts...

Her credibility is in tatters after the Pretoria High Court found her report calling on the President to 'discipline' cabinet minister Pravin Gordhan over the existence of an alleged 'rogue unit' at the national tax collector South African Revenue Service (SARS) to be 'the product of a wholly irrational process bereft of any sound legal or factual basis'...

On the other side of the fence Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan is the strongest proponent of the SAA bail-out which conforms with a decision by the ruling ANC's internal structures to preserve the national carrier...

This could suggest a special role in the Presidency for either Mboweni or Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan...

But others such as Mboweni and Public Enterprises Ministers Pravin Gordhan have a much more centrist view and want to use the pandemic to usher in neo-liberal economic reforms in leading the restructuring of the post-Covid-19 economy...

  Other ministers who have been keeping a low profile since the country went into lockdown are the Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan and Finance Minister Tito Mboweni who is believed to be working on government plans for Covid-19 interventions from his farm in Limpopo...

Mboweni and Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan are Ramaphosa's strongest allies in the Cabinet but neither of them are in the 'top six' party posts...

Said one veteran analyst 'The word is that De Ruyter will do the job the way Cyril Ramaphosa and Pravin Gordhan want it done – to preserve the ANC – rather than the way it should be done to rescue the country...

Bongo claims Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan is behind the arrest...