A political hero, Pravin Gordhan ticked SA’s boxes

MARLAN PADAYACHEWho was Pravin Jamnadas Gordhan? South Africa’s foremost Durban-born political activist and government minister died, aged 75, as another victim of cancer that ended his illustrious role-playing in progressive politics.I knew Gordhan as iconic activist. He had shaped and redefined the anti-apartheid political landscape since 1970s-80s, culminating in his extraordinary outreach in the 1990s to contributing enormously – often at great personal sacrifices, glory, success, humiliation and embarrassment when he was fired by Jacob Zuma. And 30 years later, his untimely death…