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Xinhua, March 28, 2017 Adjust font size:

Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan is expected back in the country Tuesday morning after President Jacob Zuma instructed him to return home.

The Treasury has confirmed that Gordhan and his team will comply with the President's order to halt their investor roadshows. (South African Broadcasting Corporation)

-- The Ahmed Kathrada Foundation has confirmed that 87-year-old anti-apartheid stalwart Ahmed Kathrada died in the early hours of Tuesday morning at the Donald Gordon Hospital in Johannesburg.

The foundation's director Neeshan Balton, confirmed in a statement released just before 06:00 that the anti-apartheid struggle veteran had "breathed his last today". (News24)

-- Market reaction to President Jacob Zuma's Monday instruction that Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan immediately return from a post-Budget investor roadshow in the UK and US, shows that the bigger picture is not taken into account, said emerging market economist Peter Attard Montalto.

A Cabinet reshuffle, which is widely expected, is also about Zuma wanting to assert loyalty and rid the Cabinet of detractors, such as certain South African Communist Party members. (Fin24) Endit