South Africa's Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan says he will take steps against attempts to discredit him

South Africa's Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan said on Friday he would take legal action to protect himself from what he called attempts to discredit him and the integrity of the National Treasury. Gordhan's statement followed a newspaper report which quoted sources as saying he had threatened to resign from cabinet after receiving a letter from the elite Hawks police unit questioning his knowledge of a suspected rogue unit at the revenue service.

 South African Minister of Finance, Mr. Pravin Gordhan was born 1949-4-12 in Durban, South Africa.

Pravin Gordhan is the Minister of Finance. He was the previous Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs. He is the former Commissioner of the South African Revenue Service as well as the former Chair of the World Customs Organisation.Pravin Gordhan has been appointed as the minister of finance, replacing David van Rooyen.

 (Reporting by Stella Mapenzauswa; Editing by James Macharia)