FACT CHECK: Update – No contracts from Treasury to companies affiliated with Anisha Gordhan
National Treasury has confirmed that it did not award contracts to any of the 24 companies affiliated with Anisha Gordhan, the daughter of Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan.
The revelations come on the back of claims by leadership of the EFF that Gordhan junior was a proxy for her father's business and had "amassed more than R80 million" doing business with government.
Treasury was first asked to confirm whether it had awarded contracts to any companies linked to Anisha on November 21. Treasury investigated News24's detailed query for two weeks and on Wednesday confirmed it had not awarded contracts to these companies between 2009 and 2018.
News24 previously scrutinised these claims and found they had no basis in fact. Anisha had served on the boards of several companies as a representative of Investec in a non-executive capacity.
She was employed in the equity division of Investec, which manages the firm's investments, from 2007 to 2017.