THE MINISTER OF FINANCE AND OTHERS SUMMONSED

11 October 2016

In common with the rest of South Africa, Freedom Under Law is shocked by this morning’s disclosures by the National Prosecuting Authority. FUL has little confidence in the competence and integrity of the NPA and deplores the melodramatic manner in which it saw fit to broadcast its decision to bring certain charges against Minister Gordhan and others.

FUL believes it is wrong to comment on the merits of charges pending before the courts, and emphasises that it has every confidence that the courts will resolve such charges satisfactorily. We do, nonetheless, point out that not only the Minister himself but several others have expressed their profound disagreement with the legal and factual basis of these charges.

On Advocate Abrahams’s theatrical tagging-on of the so-called “SARS rogue unit”, we do, however, wish to comment. Notwithstanding his faith in the “ongoing investigation” into the unit, we are satisfied that there is no merit in any of the allegations of criminality.

Statement issued by Freedom Under Law, 11 October 2016