{"id":168703,"date":"2017-04-06T07:52:07","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T05:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=168703"},"modified":"2017-04-06T07:52:07","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T05:52:07","slug":"i-dont-want-my-old-job-back-gordhan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/168703\/i-dont-want-my-old-job-back-gordhan\/","title":{"rendered":"I don&#8217;t want my old job back: Gordhan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former finance minister Pravin Gordhan <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/news\/special-features\/kathrada\/gordhan-has-a-go-at-zuma-at-kathradamemorial-8514788\">has made it clear <\/a><\/strong>that he does not want his old job back and said that he wasn&#8217;t fired, but rather relieved of his responsibilities.<\/p>\n<p>The former minister was speaking at a memorial for late ANC stalwart, Ahmed Kathrada.<\/p>\n<p>Gordhan acknowledged that many see his appearances as him campaigning to somehow get his job back, but he said this was not the case, and that he should have retired &#8220;a long time ago&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is not about me or Mcebisi Jonas (his axed deputy). I don&#8217;t want my job back. I was meant to retire a long time ago. But don&#8217;t try to malign me. I didn&#8217;t apply for this job. I was asked to take it on,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>He explained how the whole fiasco played out from his end &#8211; with an SMS telling him to return to South Africa &#8211; and expressed disappointment in that the country desperately needed the investment roadshow to happen.<\/p>\n<p>He reportedly told the audience that &#8220;some people&#8221; don&#8217;t want to understand the importance of a roadshow and how South Africa will have to borrow \u00a3100 million this year.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/168663\/do-not-vote-with-conscience-against-zuma-mantashe-warns-anc-mps\/\">Do not vote with conscience against Zuma, Mantashe warns ANC MPs<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former finance minister Pravin Gordhan has made it clear that he does not want his old job back and said that he wasn&#8217;t fired, but rather relieved of his responsibilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":139895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-168703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-active"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168707,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168703\/revisions\/168707"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}