Pravin Gordhan said : “BEE policies have not worked and have not made SA a fairer or more prosperous country”

businessday Wednesday, August 5, 2020 5:50:00 PM EAT

Pravin Gordhan said : "Without providing finance for operations at SAX, a party to liquidation cannot successfully oppose the liquidation application. As there was no finance available for SAX, the minister did not oppose or appeal judgment to liquidate SA Express,"

iol Friday, July 31, 2020 5:24:00 PM EAT

Pravin Gordhan added : "However, the liquidator has been looking into the possibility of an equity investor,"

iol Friday, July 31, 2020 5:24:00 PM EAT

Pravin Gordhan said : "What government has committed to is to mobilize funding,"

news24 Sunday, July 19, 2020 4:41:00 PM EAT

Pravin Gordhan said : “We will make an announcement once we have some certainty in due course,”

dailymaverick Wednesday, June 24, 2020 2:01:00 AM EAT

Pravin Gordhan announced : “significant malfeasance has been discovered at Eskom, with at least 3000 employees implicated”

iol Tuesday, June 9, 2020 12:58:00 PM EAT

Pravin Gordhan added : “It will take time. I have every confidence the CEO is taking the company in the right direction…”

dailymaverick Thursday, June 4, 2020 2:21:00 AM EAT

Pravin Gordhan said : “We cannot say we have a debt solution,” “Various options have been explored in the market place. Once we have settled down the Covid-related matters, we will address (Eskom’s) debt”

dailymaverick Thursday, June 4, 2020 2:21:00 AM EAT

Pravin Gordhan said : “I think Eskom is on the right track,”

eyewitness-news Wednesday, June 3, 2020 10:08:00 PM EAT

Pravin Gordhan said : “What is very clear is that austerity, which we in some parts of the Group of 20 thought was absolutely necessary ... is not the answer. In SA as well, we have some austerity fans among our public commentators, and it is time to rethink”

businessday Tuesday, May 26, 2020 7:55:00 PM EAT

Pravin Gordhan said : “I think it is shocking, instead of saying we will deliver a business rescue plan that presents two or three options on which we will consult the relevant players and then decide what the optimal option is,”

iol Sunday, May 17, 2020 1:23:00 PM EAT

Pravin Gordhan said : “Mango has been a reasonably well-run airline and we are waiting to see what kind of developments there are, both domestically and globally, in respect of low-cost airlines and what their future is,”

iol Sunday, May 17, 2020 10:27:00 AM EAT

Pravin Gordhan said : "The DPE has the cooperation of all eight trade unions at SAA in a consultative forum. They have participated in technical workshops and in 'designing' a new airline. They have also indicated that they are willing to undertake a salary sacrifice if need be," "We are also working with the unions on a social plan for those employees who will not be accommodated [going forward] and that involves training and assistance from the UIF. Once we have 'a product' in that regard, we will provide further communication"

irishsun Saturday, May 16, 2020 12:47:00 PM EAT

Pravin Gordhan said : “It is astounding Mr Dongwana says to you the business practice process will be done for a wind-down. That is shocking! Instead of presenting various options…”

dailymaverick Saturday, May 16, 2020 12:03:00 AM EAT

Pravin Gordhan said : “I am quite astounded that after all the interactions we have had today, Dongwana still says to you as a committee, says to the SA public — despite what the Companies Act says — that the business rescue plan will be for a wind-down. I think that is shocking. Instead of saying they will make a plan that gives options and allows stakeholders to comment, there is a determination to present a business rescue plan without presenting [other] options to us,”

businessday Friday, May 15, 2020 9:44:00 PM EAT

Pravin Gordhan said : “We have called on the business rescue practitioners themselves and all the consultancies that they have brought in to reduce their fees by anything up to 40percent so that they also contribute like the staff have been contributing to a proper outcome of this process,” “We haven't heard from them in this particular regard”

iol Saturday, May 9, 2020 10:06:00 AM EAT

Pravin Gordhan souligné : "Nous devons concevoir un plan social qui (...) protège l'emploi mais aussi change la façon dont l'entreprise était gérée"

afp-fr Friday, May 8, 2020 7:51:00 PM EAT

Pravin Gordhan said : “We have called on the BRPs themselves, which would include some accounting firms, to actually reduce their fees by anything up to 40percent so that they also contribute, like the staff would be contributing, to a proper outcome of this process we have engaged one of the practitioners on the reduction of fees,”

iol Friday, May 8, 2020 11:41:00 AM EAT

Pravin Gordhan said : "We believe an alternative transition process is possible and we will put those proposals to the BRPs in the next 48 hours. The business rescue plan ultimately is to see how the business can get to be viable in future. The various classes of creditors must vote on it and banks in SA are the main creditors,"

irishsun Friday, May 8, 2020 2:28:00 AM EAT

Pravin Gordhan said : “The [business rescue] plan could have been concluded long ago. They did not do that. Now we are saying, instead of moving to liquidation or wholesale sale of assets, we are proposing an alternative route. They have finally agreed to talk about this. So we need to find money from within their cash, plus contribution from employees, so that the runway is increased, which gives us time to resolve the future path soonest”

businessday Thursday, May 7, 2020 8:27:00 PM EAT

Pravin Gordhan said : “We have called on the BRPs themselves, which would include some accounting firms, to actually reduce their fees by anything up to 40 percent so that they also contribute, like the staff would be contributing, to a proper outcome of this process … we have engaged one of the practitioners on the reduction of fees,”

the-star Thursday, May 7, 2020 12:00:00 PM EAT

Pravin Gordhan said : "R5.5 billion have been spent in the past five months, something we have been questioning ... these are matters of accountability we have been getting into,"

iol Thursday, May 7, 2020 10:57:00 AM EAT

Pravin Gordhan said : "Even the new is not something that starts at an optimal level. All airlines are going to start at a small scale and depending on the market situation grow to whatever they have to offer,"

iol Thursday, May 7, 2020 10:57:00 AM EAT

Pravin Gordhan said : “At best what we had given to us yesterday morning is an outline, but much of it is about the history and not too much of it is about solutions,”

citizen Thursday, May 7, 2020 10:38:00 AM EAT

Pravin Gordhan told : “In the next 48 hours we are meeting with the business rescue practitioners to discuss finances, how much money can be found to carry on beyond 8 May,”

dailymaverick Thursday, May 7, 2020 2:02:00 AM EAT

Pravin Gordhan told : “We are questioning what has been spent [of the R5.5-billion],”

dailymaverick Thursday, May 7, 2020 2:02:00 AM EAT

Pravin Gordhan said : “some are suspect, some are vacuous, some may be of substance,”

dailymaverick Thursday, May 7, 2020 2:02:00 AM EAT

Pravin Gordhan said : “some are suspect, some are vacuous, some may be of substance,”

dailymaverick Thursday, May 7, 2020 2:02:00 AM EAT

Pravin Gordhan said : "In our view, if this wind down process the business practitioner team seem to be on at the moment continues as they proposed it will not serve the original objective that we set for the business rescue process," "We also want to indicate that there should be no fire sale of important assets of SAA, nor should there any movement towards liquidation when in fact there are many alternatives that can be pursued"

news-yahoo Wednesday, May 6, 2020 8:52:00 PM EAT

Pravin Gordhan said : “national asset which is internationally competitive, viable sustainable and profitable,”

citizen Sunday, April 26, 2020 1:13:00 PM EAT

Pravin Gordhan said : “The advent of the Covid-19 pandemic has further stretched national resources in the government’s effort to mitigate the impact on the health of our people and on economic activity,”

iol Saturday, April 18, 2020 5:38:00 PM EAT

Pravin Gordhan told : "Once capture and corruption took over it was decimated,"

the-star Wednesday, April 15, 2020 12:51:00 PM EAT

Pravin Gordhan said : "We will work with the practitioners in this regard as well to find the relevant skills,"

the-star Wednesday, April 15, 2020 12:51:00 PM EAT

Pravin Gordhan said : "SAA has been getting requests in the last few days to consider taking on passengers who are flying directly to SA,"

irishsun Wednesday, March 18, 2020 11:57:00 AM EAT

Pravin Gordhan said : "What we need to emphasise is airlines throughout world are in huge financial difficulties,"

irishsun Wednesday, March 18, 2020 11:57:00 AM EAT

Pravin Gordhan told : “We want a firmed up route network plan sooner rather than later because that gives everybody certainty that SAA is operating on particular routes,”

businessday Wednesday, March 4, 2020 4:35:00 PM EAT

Pravin Gordhan said : "I think as you get into the nitty gritty, there are ways that we can accommodate each other. The private sector does very similar things. Some just slash and burn, others I have come across have large numbers of workers to deal with but have found innovative, supportive and creative ways of dealing with their work force,"

irishsun Thursday, February 27, 2020 3:41:00 PM EAT

Pravin Gordhan told : “When the minister (of finance) presents his Budget, we’ll see where the intentions of the Treasury are. That’s still being worked on,”

dailymaverick Thursday, February 20, 2020 4:30:00 AM EAT

Pravin Gordhan said : “Government will be making representations to the business rescue practitioners in order to balance the necessity for trimming unprofitable routes with the need to ensure the future sustainability of both the airline and South Africa’s aviation industry,”

dailymaverick Tuesday, February 11, 2020 5:45:00 AM EAT

Pravin Gordhan said : “Over the next month or two we are going to see fascinating exchanges, helping to get all the resources available in the country to save an important institution like Eskom and get it back to the levels of effectiveness and efficiency required,”

citizen Thursday, February 6, 2020 10:01:00 AM EAT

Pravin Gordhan said : “Trade union federation Cosatu has come up with its own innovation to protect jobs within the Eskom environment,”

citizen Wednesday, February 5, 2020 11:08:00 AM EAT

Pravin Gordhan said : “Cosatu is saying: use the workers’ pension money to mitigate the debt burden that Eskom has,” “That is a great move on the part of labour to say we are part of the solution, not just antagonists to any change that is happening,”

citizen Wednesday, February 5, 2020 11:08:00 AM EAT

Pravin Gordhan said : “What we’ve learnt in the last 18 months is the systemic effect of corruption is huge,”

citizen Wednesday, February 5, 2020 11:08:00 AM EAT

Pravin Gordhan said ( about Africa Airways ) : “Our desire is that the restructured airline will mark the beginning of a new era in South African aviation and must be able to bring in millions more tourists into SA; help create more jobs in tourism and related sectors of the economy and work with other African airlines to underpin and service the integration of African markets and improve dramatically intra-African trade and travel,”

sanews Wednesday, January 29, 2020 11:10:00 AM EAT

Pravin Gordhan said : "Today, we're going to investigate coal, tomorrow we're going to investigate oil, then we're going to investigate turbine maintenance, tubing ... we'll pass it on to De Ruyter,"

irishsun Wednesday, January 22, 2020 12:33:00 AM EAT

Pravin Gordhan said : "It must be clear that this is not a bailout," "This is the provision of financial assistance in order to facilitate a radical restructure of the airline"

ibtimes Saturday, January 11, 2020 3:24:00 AM EAT

Pravin Gordhan said : “No, no, no. Don’t point fingers… They must touch me. They must touch me!”

citizen Friday, January 3, 2020 9:30:00 AM EAT

Pravin Gordhan added : “We’ve survived apartheid, we’ll survive this fascist populism,”

citizen Friday, January 3, 2020 9:30:00 AM EAT

Pravin Gordhan explique : "Je n'ai aucune obligation légale de me présenter à cette convocation des Hawks. Je ne compte pas m'y rendre"

bbc-french-africa Tuesday, September 24, 2019 5:26:00 PM EAT

Pravin Gordhan lancé : "Les relations entre travailleurs et patrons, entre riches et pauvres, Noirs et Blancs (...) reflètent toujours l'héritage du colonialisme et de l'apartheid"

afp-fr Wednesday, February 22, 2017 6:25:00 PM EAT

Pravin Gordhan explicou : "Não há nenhuma obrigação legal de me apresentar a essa convocação dos Hawks. Não pretendo apresentar-se"

portalangop Wednesday, August 24, 2016 9:07:00 PM EAT

Pravin Gordhan said : “BEE policies have not worked and have not made SA a fairer or more prosperous country”

businessday Wednesday, August 5, 2020 5:50:00 PM EAT

Pravin Gordhan said : "Without providing finance for operations at SAX, a party to liquidation cannot successfully oppose the liquidation application. As there was no finance available for SAX, the minister did not oppose or appeal judgment to liquidate SA Express,"

iol Friday, July 31, 2020 5:24:00 PM EAT

Pravin Gordhan added : "However, the liquidator has been looking into the possibility of an equity investor,"

iol Friday, July 31, 2020 5:24:00 PM EAT

Pravin Gordhan said : "What government has committed to is to mobilize funding,"

news24 Sunday, July 19, 2020 4:41:00 PM EAT

Pravin Gordhan said : “We will make an announcement once we have some certainty in due course,”

dailymaverick Wednesday, June 24, 2020 2:01:00 AM EAT

Pravin Gordhan announced : “significant malfeasance has been discovered at Eskom, with at least 3000 employees implicated”

iol Tuesday, June 9, 2020 12:58:00 PM EAT

Pravin Gordhan added : “It will take time. I have every confidence the CEO is taking the company in the right direction…”

dailymaverick Thursday, June 4, 2020 2:21:00 AM EAT

Pravin Gordhan said : “We cannot say we have a debt solution,” “Various options have been explored in the market place. Once we have settled down the Covid-related matters, we will address (Eskom’s) debt”

dailymaverick Thursday, June 4, 2020 2:21:00 AM EAT

Pravin Gordhan said : “I think Eskom is on the right track,”

eyewitness-news Wednesday, June 3, 2020 10:08:00 PM EAT

Pravin Gordhan said : “What is very clear is that austerity, which we in some parts of the Group of 20 thought was absolutely necessary ... is not the answer. In SA as well, we have some austerity fans among our public commentators, and it is time to rethink”

businessday Tuesday, May 26, 2020 7:55:00 PM EAT

Pravin Gordhan said : “I think it is shocking, instead of saying we will deliver a business rescue plan that presents two or three options on which we will consult the relevant players and then decide what the optimal option is,”

iol Sunday, May 17, 2020 1:23:00 PM EAT

Pravin Gordhan said : “Mango has been a reasonably well-run airline and we are waiting to see what kind of developments there are, both domestically and globally, in respect of low-cost airlines and what their future is,”

iol Sunday, May 17, 2020 10:27:00 AM EAT

Pravin Gordhan said : "The DPE has the cooperation of all eight trade unions at SAA in a consultative forum. They have participated in technical workshops and in 'designing' a new airline. They have also indicated that they are willing to undertake a salary sacrifice if need be," "We are also working with the unions on a social plan for those employees who will not be accommodated [going forward] and that involves training and assistance from the UIF. Once we have 'a product' in that regard, we will provide further communication"

irishsun Saturday, May 16, 2020 12:47:00 PM EAT

Pravin Gordhan said : “It is astounding Mr Dongwana says to you the business practice process will be done for a wind-down. That is shocking! Instead of presenting various options…”

dailymaverick Saturday, May 16, 2020 12:03:00 AM EAT

Pravin Gordhan said : “I am quite astounded that after all the interactions we have had today, Dongwana still says to you as a committee, says to the SA public — despite what the Companies Act says — that the business rescue plan will be for a wind-down. I think that is shocking. Instead of saying they will make a plan that gives options and allows stakeholders to comment, there is a determination to present a business rescue plan without presenting [other] options to us,”

businessday Friday, May 15, 2020 9:44:00 PM EAT

Pravin Gordhan said : “We have called on the business rescue practitioners themselves and all the consultancies that they have brought in to reduce their fees by anything up to 40percent so that they also contribute like the staff have been contributing to a proper outcome of this process,” “We haven't heard from them in this particular regard”

iol Saturday, May 9, 2020 10:06:00 AM EAT

Pravin Gordhan souligné : "Nous devons concevoir un plan social qui (...) protège l'emploi mais aussi change la façon dont l'entreprise était gérée"

afp-fr Friday, May 8, 2020 7:51:00 PM EAT

Pravin Gordhan said : “We have called on the BRPs themselves, which would include some accounting firms, to actually reduce their fees by anything up to 40percent so that they also contribute, like the staff would be contributing, to a proper outcome of this process we have engaged one of the practitioners on the reduction of fees,”

iol Friday, May 8, 2020 11:41:00 AM EAT

Pravin Gordhan said : "We believe an alternative transition process is possible and we will put those proposals to the BRPs in the next 48 hours. The business rescue plan ultimately is to see how the business can get to be viable in future. The various classes of creditors must vote on it and banks in SA are the main creditors,"

irishsun Friday, May 8, 2020 2:28:00 AM EAT

Pravin Gordhan said : “The [business rescue] plan could have been concluded long ago. They did not do that. Now we are saying, instead of moving to liquidation or wholesale sale of assets, we are proposing an alternative route. They have finally agreed to talk about this. So we need to find money from within their cash, plus contribution from employees, so that the runway is increased, which gives us time to resolve the future path soonest”

businessday Thursday, May 7, 2020 8:27:00 PM EAT

Pravin Gordhan said : “We have called on the BRPs themselves, which would include some accounting firms, to actually reduce their fees by anything up to 40 percent so that they also contribute, like the staff would be contributing, to a proper outcome of this process … we have engaged one of the practitioners on the reduction of fees,”

the-star Thursday, May 7, 2020 12:00:00 PM EAT

Pravin Gordhan said : "R5.5 billion have been spent in the past five months, something we have been questioning ... these are matters of accountability we have been getting into,"

iol Thursday, May 7, 2020 10:57:00 AM EAT

Pravin Gordhan said : "Even the new is not something that starts at an optimal level. All airlines are going to start at a small scale and depending on the market situation grow to whatever they have to offer,"

iol Thursday, May 7, 2020 10:57:00 AM EAT

Pravin Gordhan said : “At best what we had given to us yesterday morning is an outline, but much of it is about the history and not too much of it is about solutions,”

citizen Thursday, May 7, 2020 10:38:00 AM EAT

Pravin Gordhan told : “In the next 48 hours we are meeting with the business rescue practitioners to discuss finances, how much money can be found to carry on beyond 8 May,”

dailymaverick Thursday, May 7, 2020 2:02:00 AM EAT

Pravin Gordhan told : “We are questioning what has been spent [of the R5.5-billion],”

dailymaverick Thursday, May 7, 2020 2:02:00 AM EAT

Pravin Gordhan said : “some are suspect, some are vacuous, some may be of substance,”

dailymaverick Thursday, May 7, 2020 2:02:00 AM EAT

Pravin Gordhan said : “some are suspect, some are vacuous, some may be of substance,”

dailymaverick Thursday, May 7, 2020 2:02:00 AM EAT

Pravin Gordhan said : "In our view, if this wind down process the business practitioner team seem to be on at the moment continues as they proposed it will not serve the original objective that we set for the business rescue process," "We also want to indicate that there should be no fire sale of important assets of SAA, nor should there any movement towards liquidation when in fact there are many alternatives that can be pursued"

news-yahoo Wednesday, May 6, 2020 8:52:00 PM EAT

Pravin Gordhan said : “national asset which is internationally competitive, viable sustainable and profitable,”

citizen Sunday, April 26, 2020 1:13:00 PM EAT

Pravin Gordhan said : “The advent of the Covid-19 pandemic has further stretched national resources in the government’s effort to mitigate the impact on the health of our people and on economic activity,”

iol Saturday, April 18, 2020 5:38:00 PM EAT

Pravin Gordhan told : "Once capture and corruption took over it was decimated,"

the-star Wednesday, April 15, 2020 12:51:00 PM EAT

Pravin Gordhan said : "We will work with the practitioners in this regard as well to find the relevant skills,"

the-star Wednesday, April 15, 2020 12:51:00 PM EAT

Pravin Gordhan said : "SAA has been getting requests in the last few days to consider taking on passengers who are flying directly to SA,"

irishsun Wednesday, March 18, 2020 11:57:00 AM EAT

Pravin Gordhan said : "What we need to emphasise is airlines throughout world are in huge financial difficulties,"

irishsun Wednesday, March 18, 2020 11:57:00 AM EAT

Pravin Gordhan told : “We want a firmed up route network plan sooner rather than later because that gives everybody certainty that SAA is operating on particular routes,”

businessday Wednesday, March 4, 2020 4:35:00 PM EAT

Pravin Gordhan said : "I think as you get into the nitty gritty, there are ways that we can accommodate each other. The private sector does very similar things. Some just slash and burn, others I have come across have large numbers of workers to deal with but have found innovative, supportive and creative ways of dealing with their work force,"

irishsun Thursday, February 27, 2020 3:41:00 PM EAT

Pravin Gordhan told : “When the minister (of finance) presents his Budget, we’ll see where the intentions of the Treasury are. That’s still being worked on,”

dailymaverick Thursday, February 20, 2020 4:30:00 AM EAT

Pravin Gordhan said : “Government will be making representations to the business rescue practitioners in order to balance the necessity for trimming unprofitable routes with the need to ensure the future sustainability of both the airline and South Africa’s aviation industry,”

dailymaverick Tuesday, February 11, 2020 5:45:00 AM EAT

Pravin Gordhan said : “Over the next month or two we are going to see fascinating exchanges, helping to get all the resources available in the country to save an important institution like Eskom and get it back to the levels of effectiveness and efficiency required,”

citizen Thursday, February 6, 2020 10:01:00 AM EAT

Pravin Gordhan said : “Trade union federation Cosatu has come up with its own innovation to protect jobs within the Eskom environment,”

citizen Wednesday, February 5, 2020 11:08:00 AM EAT

Pravin Gordhan said : “Cosatu is saying: use the workers’ pension money to mitigate the debt burden that Eskom has,” “That is a great move on the part of labour to say we are part of the solution, not just antagonists to any change that is happening,”

citizen Wednesday, February 5, 2020 11:08:00 AM EAT

Pravin Gordhan said : “What we’ve learnt in the last 18 months is the systemic effect of corruption is huge,”

citizen Wednesday, February 5, 2020 11:08:00 AM EAT

Pravin Gordhan said ( about Africa Airways ) : “Our desire is that the restructured airline will mark the beginning of a new era in South African aviation and must be able to bring in millions more tourists into SA; help create more jobs in tourism and related sectors of the economy and work with other African airlines to underpin and service the integration of African markets and improve dramatically intra-African trade and travel,”

sanews Wednesday, January 29, 2020 11:10:00 AM EAT

Pravin Gordhan said : "Today, we're going to investigate coal, tomorrow we're going to investigate oil, then we're going to investigate turbine maintenance, tubing ... we'll pass it on to De Ruyter,"

irishsun Wednesday, January 22, 2020 12:33:00 AM EAT

Pravin Gordhan said : "It must be clear that this is not a bailout," "This is the provision of financial assistance in order to facilitate a radical restructure of the airline"

ibtimes Saturday, January 11, 2020 3:24:00 AM EAT

Pravin Gordhan said : “No, no, no. Don’t point fingers… They must touch me. They must touch me!”

citizen Friday, January 3, 2020 9:30:00 AM EAT

Pravin Gordhan added : “We’ve survived apartheid, we’ll survive this fascist populism,”

citizen Friday, January 3, 2020 9:30:00 AM EAT

Pravin Gordhan explique : "Je n'ai aucune obligation légale de me présenter à cette convocation des Hawks. Je ne compte pas m'y rendre"

bbc-french-africa Tuesday, September 24, 2019 5:26:00 PM EAT

Pravin Gordhan lancé : "Les relations entre travailleurs et patrons, entre riches et pauvres, Noirs et Blancs (...) reflètent toujours l'héritage du colonialisme et de l'apartheid"

afp-fr Wednesday, February 22, 2017 6:25:00 PM EAT

Pravin Gordhan explicou : "Não há nenhuma obrigação legal de me apresentar a essa convocação dos Hawks. Não pretendo apresentar-se"

portalangop Wednesday, August 24, 2016 9:07:00 PM EAT