Pravin Gordhan

Knyro said:
You would think the word "honoris" would have given it away.
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Thanks.
Clear now.

adrianx said:
...but why does he support the ANC? There must be something wrong upstairs in spite of all his education.
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The bits below comes from a long, but worthwhile read.
Bold bits are mine.

Since the ANC’s earliest days in power, it has been party policy to deploy its loyal cadres to positions of power and influence – not only to do the job and enjoy the financial rewards but, primarily, to advance ANC interests. Why would the management of SARS be an exception?

By 2001, when Noseweek’s story appeared, the Vula boys were positioned strategically throughout state structures. The Shaik brothers’ mentor, that stalwart communist academic Pravin Gordhan, like Maharaj, was unlikely to be welcomed into Mbeki’s political structures; instead he was deployed to SARS, where he was joined by old comrades Vuso Shabalala (in Customs), Ivan Pillay (in SARS’s Special Investigations) and Sirish Soni.


With Mbeki’s departure and the advent of the Zuma era, all of the Vula boys took a step up: for the purposes of this story we need only note that Gordhan became Finance Minister, Maharaj, Minister in the Presidency, and Pillay, acting head of SARS. Even before that – while Gordhan, Pillay, and the other Vula members deployed to SARS were widely acknowledged to be doing a good job of it – they never forgot that they were party cadres deployed ultimately to look after the ANC’s interests – or, at least, their faction of it.


….........when, in January 2002 Pillay intervened to stop a major investigation by his staff into the tax affairs of the country’s most flamboyant mega-millionaire Brett Kebble and his rather more discreet father, Roger. The Kebbles had not rendered tax returns or paid a cent in tax since 1993. In due course it would emerge that the Kebbles enjoyed such protection because they were sharing their stolen loot with the ANC, various of its institutions such as the youth league, and with various leading personalities in the party leadership. In response to Noseweek’s December 2004 exposé of how Pillay was protecting the Kebbles, Gordhan rushed to defend him by threatening to prosecute Noseweek. In an official letter I received in January 2005, a SARS spokesperson declared: “The Minister of Finance and Commissioner of SARS have the fullest confidence in Mr Pillay’s integrity, commitment to the law and dedication to the SARS mandate.” She went on to inform me they intended prosecuting me for breaking tax secrecy laws. They never dared.

http://www.noseweek.co.za/article/3501/SARS-spies,-damned-spies-and-more-lies
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Anc fighting and tearing itself apart. Can't take the heat.
 
At least Gordhan has tertiary qualifications...plural!

ShowerHead is a stupid bushman who only ever managed to finish 5th grade, and now his SA's president? Surely there's something with this equation?
 
crackersa said:
Someone should tell gates, zuckerg that a degree means something.
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Not quite the same, they finished school and then flunked out of university because they weren't being challenged and didn't have time to waste, they were extremely driven.

Same applies to Steve Jobs and a few others.
 
Jola said:
Not quite the same, they finished school and then flunked out of university because they weren't being challenged and didn't have time to waste, they were extremely driven.

Same applies to Steve Jobs and a few others.
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So Gordon didn't finish high school?
 
Jola said:
Not quite the same, they finished school and then flunked out of university because they weren't being challenged and didn't have time to waste, they were extremely driven.

Same applies to Steve Jobs and a few others.
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Someone should tell the ANC that they don't have to pretend that they have degrees, they should rather pretend that they "weren't being challenged and didn't have time to waste, they were extremely driven".
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adrianx said:
Someone should tell the ANC that they don't have to pretend that they have degrees, they should rather pretend that they "weren't being challenged and didn't have time to waste, they were extremely driven".
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Except that none of them achieved anything, except in a corrupt political party in a banana republic - hardly an example of ambition.
 
surface said:
ok.
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When you say "ok." like that...

I'm not saying that I hate all ANC supporters, I'm saying that the general public who support the ANC don't really know/understand what they are voting for. The "insiders", I believe, know exactly what the are voting for and they only want to keep their jobs / enrich themselves further. They don't give a sh*^t about the past, present or future. Obviously.
 
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Jola said:
Except that none of them achieved anything, except in a corrupt political party in a banana republic - hardly an example of ambition.
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Well they achieved something, they are running a country. Not gracefully, but they are running it.
 
"Not gracefully" is the understatement of the year, and they are not running a country, they are destroying it.
 
GrammatonCleric said:
At least Gordhan has tertiary qualifications...plural!

ShowerHead is a stupid bushman who only ever managed to finish 5th grade, and now his SA's president? Surely there's something with this equation?
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You quoted the above and made a comment about qualifications, so that implicitly referred to both.

But let's forget this, it is silly.

We all know that Gordhan has qualifications, and that some people have been successful without qualifications.

So what ?
 
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