ANCWL statement on the NPA decision of summoning Minister Pravin Gordhan

11 October 2016

The African National Congress Women's League (ANCWL) has noted the decision of the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) of  summoning the Minister Pravin Gordhan to court on fraud charges which relate to the investigations at the South African Revenue Service (SARS). 

This matter has been subjected to courts of public opinions for far too long by those who chose to deal with the matter through media platforms than engage directly with law enforcement agencies. Utilising media as a platform to address the matter has created the "villains  versus victims theories and angels versus devils tendencies" in the matter. 

Furthermore the ANCWL welcomes the remarks by the Head of the NPA, Advocate Shaun Abrahams which takes the public into confidence that there is no political interference on this matter. This remarks clearly indicates that there is no individual subjected to the manipulation of the law and law enforcement agencies to ulterior political motives. 

On the basis of this remarks by Advocate Abrahams, ANCWL therefore believes that any notion that seeks to claim political interference into this matter is nothing else but a tactic of the wedge drivers and their funders who are hellbent in portraying the ANC Government administration under President Jacob Zuma as a government which is focused into political conspiracies than transforming the economy. 

The wedge drivers and their funders are anti- transformation of the economy of SA. They want the majority of the citizens to continue languishing in dire poverty and their kids not affording access to higher education whilst the minority continue controlling the economy. They want the majority to remain economically excluded and being landless. These imperialists forces and their agents  influences reactions of markets on the performance of Rand to create a perception that there are those who are above the law as summoning them to courts offends the markets. 

The ANCWL urges all it supporters, members and society at large to heed Pres OR Tambo's advice when he said: 

"........Defend the revolution against enemy propaganda, whatever form it takes. Be vigilant comrades. The enemy is vigilant. Beware of the wedge-driver, the man who creeps from ear to ear, carrying a bag full of wedges, driving them in between you and the next man, between a group and another, a man who goes round creating splits and divisions. Beware of the wedge-driver, comrades. Watch his poisonous tongue...."

Issued by Meokgo Matuba, Secretary General, ANCWL, 11 October 2016