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020			_a9781776191055 (paperback) _q
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082			_a320.968 GORD
100	1		_aAncer, Jonathan, _eauthor. _9190154
245	1	0	_aJoining the dots : _ban unauthorised biography of Pravin Gordhan / _cJonathan Ancer & Chris Whitfield.
264		1	_aJohannesburg : _bJonathan Ball Publishers, _c2021.
300			_a249 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : _billustrations, portraits ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aIn April 2017 Pravin Gordan addressed a packed audience in St George's Cathedral in Cape Town. It was a week after President Jacob Zuma had fired him as Finance Minister, a move that signalled South Africa had been well and truly captured. Gordhan urged the crowd not to give up hope and to 'join the dots' in understanding what was taking place. At this moment he became a moral authority to many, someone who could fight the corruption. Seasoned journalists Jonathan Ancer and Chris Whitfield take a magnifying glass to someone at the centre of South Africa's most tumultuous period and try to understand the man behind the public image. They go back to Durban in 1949 when Gordhan was born, tracing the significant events and influences that shaped his life and prompted him to become involved in politics as a pharmacy student at the University of Durban-Westville. Ancer and Whitfield have interviewed close former activists to build a picture of his time in the underground and the role he played in the struggle including his detention and torture. It was during this time he worked closely with Zuma, the man who would, on the back of a bogus intelligence report, fire him as finance minister. The book will examine why Gordhan has been dragged into major controversies like the rogue unit saga, the intelligence report and other smears against him. President Cyril Ramaphosa's right-hand man has made many enemies: public protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane, Julius Malema and Ace Magashule to name a few. Joining the Dots is an in-depth and satisfying read about a man who has been at the centre of South African public life.
600	1	0	_aGordhan, Pravin, _d1949- _9190155
651		0	_aSouth Africa _xPolitics and government _y1994-
700	1		_aWhitfield, Chris _c(Journalist), _eauthor. _9190156
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942			_2ddc _cBOOK _w156 _xLettie Matukane _y156 _zLettie Matukane
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