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.