EFF EXPRESSES SHOCK AT UNDISCLOSED PRIVATE MEETING BETWEEN GORDHAN AND JUDGE NUGENT
Thursday, 12 July, 2018
The EFF expresses It shock and disappointment at the lawlessness that is repeatedly hanging around the activities of President Ramaphosa and Minister Pravin Gordhan in the handling of a crucial institution like SARS.
Gordhan and his henchmen have been at pains to fool the nation into believing that his rogue unit never existed. This is so despite the clear findings of an independent Investigation by Advocate Muzi Sikhakhane SC which confirmed the existence of the rogue unit under Pravin Gordhan. The Sikhakhane Report has never been challenged or reviewed in a court of law.
More recently President Ramaphosa has been dragged into the personal agenda of Pravin Gordhan. In the process Ramaphosa has committed a series of blunders which can only plunge SARS and the economy into a deeper hole. The embedded mob of journalists is only cheering and clapping hands while this is going on.
First the President appointed a conflicted judge, Justice Kate O'Regan to Chair the Disciplinary Inquiry of SARS Commissioner Tom Moyane, who faces serious charges related to governance at SARS for which he must certainly be called to account. After Justice O'Regan did the right thing and recused herself we thought things will improve.