Gordhan returns to the finance ministry with a renewed focus on helping the poor and protecting state enterprises from opportunism and corruption.
Activist and loyal ANC member Shaka Sisulu has "broken ranks" and disagreed with Wednesday’s reshuffle, deploring the "neutered" ANC’s response.
In sacking Nhlanhla Nene, Jacob Zuma has demonstrated that he does not care about the common good, only about his own survival, argues Sam Sole.
SACP and Cosatu want the tripartite alliance, not just the ANC, to be the strategic decision-makers when it comes to ministers.
Speculation is that Jacob Zuma is neutralising his critics to anoint his ex-wife, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, as the next ANC leader.
This decision paints Zuma not as a strong leader but as an increasingly desperate one, eager to feed at the trough while he still can.
Jacob Zuma replacing Nhlanhla Nene with David van Rooyen as finance minister has mauled investor confidence and the fallout could become even worse.
President Jacob Zuma has removed Nene as the minister of finance and replaced him with ANC MP David van Rooyen.
As campuses erupt over #FeesMustFall and a recession looms, experts say Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene is offering nothing new.
Public sector employees may be happy, but the wage hike won in June comes at a rotten time for the treasury.
Public order police fired stun grenades and teargas to halt crowds of protesting students outside Parliament as Nene delivered his budget speech.
With the nation’s credit rating in terrible shape, SA’s finance minister may be forced to downgrade growth and tax forecasts in his mid-term budget.
Nhlanhla Nene pledges to end billions of rand lost in dodgy tenders with the roll-out of a compulsory supplier database in the next seven months.
Outogoing African Development Bank (AfDB) president Donald Kaberuka said this week the bank’s governance structures and business model "were wrong".
The continent has shown strong economic growth in the past decade, but poverty has worsened.
Multinationals play such a large role in many nations’ budgets that effective control is crucial.
Contradicting stances by government leaders makes the potential revival of teacher colleges even harder to do than it already is.
With additional pressures on the poor, judgment day could be approaching faster.
The Reserve Bank and the finance minister have asked the Constitutional Court to overturn a ruling on exit fee charges for capital leaving SA.
Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene described the increase in the road accident fund fuel levy as “substantial”.
The minister proposes a temporary increase in the electricity levy but few believe it will end.
The finance minister has delivered a tough budget to counter the effects of ongoing maladministration.
In dire financial times for South Africa, the President’s Russian nuclear deal is not even mentioned in the national budget.
Nhlanhla Nene has little good luck and plenty of tough luck for the country’s millions of children, young people and universities as well.
The finance minister announced treasury’s intention to reduce the main budget expenditure ceiling by R25-billion over the next two years.
Aside from the usual rise in sin taxes, petrol, electricity and income tax are going up, while small businesses are getting some reprieve.
Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene approved an additional guarantee for SAA, bringing the total to R14.4-billion, but there are conditions attached.
Minister of Finance Nhlanhla Nene says that he, alongside Sars Commissioner Tom Moyane, will make sure that the fiscal institution redeems itself.
The recent G20 summit presented the Brics countries with an opportunity to fast-track plans for the establishment of a joint financial institution.
There will be more than the results of the usual Christmas binge spending to cope with, come February.
Civil society and trade unions fear Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene’s medium-term budget spells the beginning of austerity for South Africa.
Economic growth is slower than expected, government debt is rising. Here’s what the new finance minister plans to do about it.