Trevor Manuel

Trevor Manuel
16 Mar 2011

"We must accept that, despite the adequate allocation of funding, we fail to deliver quality services, especially to the poor." 

Trevor Manuel
7 Dec 2006

"It is important that we recognise that inflation ...(doesn’t) stimulate economic growth. I certainly don’t know of any country that has been able to grow sustainably in an environment of high inflation." Trevor Manuel said on a Johannesburg-based radio station.

Trevor Manuel
Nov 2006

"There are 2 jobs in South Africa every person in the country thinks they should have. The one is the Springbok rugby coach and the other is minister of finance. I'm no exception. I'd love to be Springbok rugby coach." Trevor Manuel speaking at a dinner event in Johannesburg.

Trevor Manuel
Nov 2006

"Hedge funds and private equity funds are subject to few controls and are hardly transparent. I'm not saying we should regulate them but we must examine them." Trevor Manuel after returning from the G20 meeting in Melbourne

Trevor Manuel
25 Oct 2006

"Vuyani Ngalwana's contract runs out, and I think that it is quite important that we leave the ball in his court about his own future. But what is more important than the individual is the systems that are laid. And I think that we are dealing in the retirement fund industry with bad practices that have been tolerated for a very long time, for a whole host of reasons part of which are supervision, but more importantly, there is frequently limited trusteeship of pension funds by way of employees acting together. " Trevor Manuel being interviewed by Bruce Whitfield.

Trevor Manuel
25 October 2006

"We are importing more that we are exporting, the deficit on the current account is worrisome." Trevor Manuel being interviewed by Bruce Whitfield.

Mini budget
25 October 2006

Trevor Manuel delivers the medium term budget policy statement.

Trevor Manuel
October 2006

"These kinds of investment are not very sexy, not very green, but I think all of us would recognise that they are exceedingly necessary".

Trevor Manuel
October 2006

"In [Cape Town], one of the areas of most rapid growth of middle-class housing has been on the northern fringes from Tableview out past Blouberg. Now I don't get to see it in the morning, but I imagine that trying to get through Otto du Plessis Drive in the mornings, or back in the afternoons, must be hell for people. Now this [suburban growth] was allowed to happen without any significant investment in a rail system, or some system that would discourage individuals driving their cars up that road."

2 April 2003

Honorary Doctorate of Economics from University of Natal.

15 November 2002

Honourary Doctorate of Technology from Technikon South Africa.

16 March 2002

Honorary Doctorate of Technology from Peninsula Technikon.

13 March 2002

Honourary Doctorate of Commerce from the University of the Western Cape.

December 2001

Honourary Doctorate of Commerce from the University of Stellenbosch.

February 2001

Inducted as a member of South African Academy of Engineering.

4 April 1996

Manuel is appointed as Minister of Finance.

September 1994

Awarded the Africa Prize by the German Africa Foundation, jointly with the then South African Minister of Finance, Derek Keys

August 1994

Appointed to the Advisory Committee of the United Nations Initiative for Trade Efficiency.

1994

Manuel is elected as an ANC Member of Parliament, and is appointed Minister of Trade and Industry.

January 1994

Selected by the World Economic Forum as a Global Leader for Tomorrow

1992

Manuel becomes head of the ANC's Department of Economic Planning.

1991

At the ANC's national conference Manuel is elected to the National Executive Committee.

1990

At the ANC's first regional conference in the Western Cape, Manuel is elected publicity secretary.

1989

Employed by the Mobil foundation as a Policy Manager on Entrepreneurial and Community Development

February 1989

Manuel is released with stringent restrictions.

September 1988

Manuel is detained again.

July 1988

Manuel is released from detention under severe restrictions.

15 August 1986

Manuel is detained under the emergency regulations.

25 March 1986

Manuel's ban is lifted as it is ruled that it is not in line with the provisions of the Internal Security Act.

September 1985

Manuel is detained and then banned.

1983

Regional Secretary and National Executive Member of the United Democratic Front.

1981

Manuel enters public life as the General Secretary of the Cape Areas Housing Action Committee.

Technician

Practises as a technician.

1973

Trevor Manuel matriculates from Harold Cressy High School, Cape Town.

31 January 1956

Trevor Manuel is born in Kensington, Cape Town.

Wikipedia: Tito Mboweni

17 October 2006