THICK END OF THE WEDGE
PETER BRUCE: Gordhan has a dream. So why doesn’t he act on it?
PRAVIN Gordhan, the finance minister, is a complicated man. There’s something that burns away inside him and he can’t seem to find a way to put it out, or, if it is a thirst, to quench it.From the outside, we may see his fight to retain investment status for our national debt as the heroic and courageous climax of an already illustrious career.But Gordhan has a bigger dream and anyone who has listened to him speak in public in the past five years will know what it is. He wants a fairer society. A fair and inclusive society would have time and space for more people. What we have now is the opposite. Unfair and unsustainable.He speaks about it all the time. He wants, as he told an audience again this week, the elite to "come to the party", whatever that may mean. He wants ideas. He wants action. I’m sure business listens to him politely and then continues on its merry way, knowing, perhaps, that Gordhan is aware that without the taxes and salaries business pays, there’s no society her...
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