Pravin Gordhan

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Why is Ramaphosa so fond of Pravin Gordhan? (Independent Online)

The reality is that Ramaphosa has created and is dealing with a political nightmare since he took over.

I urge the president to be very careful about who he appoints to his office and in his new Cabinet. Or is it a case of the president not taking corruption seriously - following the Phala Phala scandal, we would be forgiven for thinking so – and if so, why would the rest of his cabinet ministers then do so? Is it possible that this appointing of ministers directly to his own office is because President Ramaphosa cannot trust his own Cabinet? But is that not supposed to be the job of all ministers – to manage their portfolios, to ensure that everything runs smoothly and optimally? Soon after, it was ‘clarified’ that the minister of energy in the President's office job is purely that of a 'project manager'. Boom, employment terminated with immediate effect - a few hours after he had exposed the depth of corruption at Eskom and implicating the involvement of senior ministers or is it simply only one specific senior minister…

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Khaya Koko: Pravin Gordhan is Joshua Doore (Mail and Guardian)

“Why refer to him as Joshua Doore?” I hear you ask. Well, in November 2018, the Economic Freedom Fighters' deputy president Floyd Shivambu, a senior leader of a ...

[blame](https://mg.co.za/top-six/2022-07-08-amid-heckling-pravin-gordhan-warns-of-state-capture-2-0/) “state capture”, while complaining about the “resilience” he said he needed to garner since being appointed to oversee public enterprises, in a recent M&G [interview](https://mg.co.za/business/2023-02-05-pravin-gordhan-this-job-requires-resilience/). [depreciated a packaging firm’s market](https://www.citizen.co.za/news/did-eskom-ceo-de-ruyter-destroy-nampak-or-save-it-from-going-under/) value from R29 billion to R5 billion during his five-year tenure, would be the right person to lead a struggling energy company. [25-year downward spiral](https://mg.co.za/news/2023-01-20-thabo-mbeki-jacob-zuma-cyril-ramaphosa-the-people-who-killed-eskom-over-25-years/) to being a dim incarnation of its former self. [dog of white monopoly capital](https://www.news24.com/news24/breaking-malemas-dog-of-white-monopoly-capital-comments-against-gordhan-not-hate-speech-equality-court-20191031)”, ridiculed Gordhan by likening him to the “uncle” in the logo of furniture retailer, Joshua Doore. [electrified](https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/spotchecks/zuma-wrong-more-34-sa-homes-had-electricity-access-1994#:~:text=Around%2050%25%20had%20access%20in%20'94&text=South%20Africa's%20national%20statistics%20agency,increased%20to%2084.2%25%20in%202016.) South Africa from 58.2% households in 1996 to 84.2% in 2016, can barely keep lights on, condemning the country to upwards of 10 hours a day of blackouts. [Sona](https://mg.co.za/tag/sona/)), Pravin “Joshua Doore” Gordhan smirked when our uncle in the load-shedding business realised, despite his many failings, he would still be entrusted with overseeing Eskom.

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Joshua Doore: Uncle Smirking At Zero Accountability (NNN)

Joshua Doore: Uncle Smirking At Zero Accountability Government Minister Pravin Gordhan is essentially taking up the role of 'Joshua Doore', a figurative ...

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