A hack job? Did Mboweni like BLF's anti-Gordhan tweet?
20 November 2018
Finance Minister Tito Mboweni has seemingly liked a tweet by Black First Land First (BLF) spokesperson Lindsay Maasdorp which is highly critical of Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan - but his spokesperson says he may have been hacked.
"We must never forget those who organised with settlers, sat and plotted with the coloniser and marched arm in arm to defend Pravin Gordhan and to remove President Zuma; all to please Rupert," Maasdorp tweeted ahead of Gordhan's testimony at the judicial commission of inquiry into state capture in Johannesburg on Monday.
Maasdorp's Twitter account contains many anti-Gordhan statements, among others, accusing Gordhan of being a "Gupta accomplice".
Gordhan faced intimidation and victimisation for refusing to be a party to state capture, the judicial inquiry into state capture headed by Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo heard on Monday.