Mcebisi Hubert Jonas

DG Lungisa Fuzile was persuaded to resign when Gordhan and his deputy Mcebisi Jonas were sacked...

Deputy Finance Minister Mcebisi Jonas has said that 'vested interests' are behind the nuclear drive...

Topping the list of officials that Zuma plans to remove are: • Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan who with his Deputy Mcebisi Jonas and Director General of Treasury Lungisa Fuzile have blocked pressure for more patronage projects (AC Vol 57 No 24 Gordhan in ratings war); • Tourism Minister Derek Hanekom who led the rebellion against Zuma at the NEC; • Science and Technology Minister Naledi Pandor; • Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi; • National Education Minister and leader of the South African Communist Party (SACP) Blade Nzimande who made a scathing attack on Zuma on 9 December...

Mkhize was also mentioned as a stern critic of Zuma's ties to private companies in an interview with Madonsela about the Deputy Finance Minister Mcebisi Jonas who claimed he had been offered substantial sums by the Gupta family to accept the job of Finance Minister on their terms (AC Vol 57 No 22 A week of defeats for Zuma)...

Whether they include Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan and his deputy Mcebisi Jonas remains to be seen...

Then the group declared its support for Mcebisi Jonas who said that the Gupta family had offered him the post of Finance Minister before Zuma sacked Nene (AC Vol 55 No 11 A loyalist cabinet and Vol 57 No 4 Zupta Inc...

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...

Nene's deputy is a former member of the Executive Council for Economic Development in the Eastern Cape Mcebisi Jonas...

The suggested alternatives to Manuel are Eastern Cape political stalwart Mcebisi Jonas Deputy Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene and South African Revenue Service head Pravin Gordhan...