FORMER COMMISSIONER OF THE South African Revenue Ser-vice, Tom Moyane, is preparing to confront Public Enterprises minister Pravin Gordhan with allegations that government ministers, including President Cyril Ramaphosa, attempted to derail investigations and prosecutions concerning the so-called rogue unit at SARS.
Gordhan is likely to face some tough questions [to which we too would like to know the answers – Ed.] when Moyane’s lawyers cross-examine the minister at the Zondo Commission of Inquiry into State Capture. His appearance set down for March 19. Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo gave the go-ahead for the grilling last November, although his ruling has come with a caveat – questions must relate to allegations made against Moyane.
Moyane is likely to get a rough ride too. Then president Jacob Zuma appointed him to the commissioner’s seat at SARS in 2014. A long-time Zuma ally, Moyane came with no other more obvious qualifications that might have fitted him for the taxing job. He will forever be remembered for his tempestuous four-year reign, notably for bringing in Boston-based consulting firm Bain & Company for a ruinous R204-million reworking of the tax collector’s operating model and structure.
Retired judge Frank Nugent (who called for Moyane’s dismissal in his Nugent Commission report) and Ramaphosa (who fired Moyane in November 2018) are two of Moyan e’s particular targets. His forthcoming cross-examination of Pravin Gordhan at the Zondo Commission promises to be a fiery face-off.
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Lennie The Liquidator Faces R500,000 Defamation Suit
After losing his cool when his fees were questioned
Panel Beater De Luxe
Danmar Autobody and its erstwhile directors get a serious panel beating in court papers. Corruption and theft are said to have destroyed the firm chaired by Nelson Mandela’s eldest daughter, leaving 200 workers destitute and threatening to kill.
Meet Covid Diarist Ronald Wohlman
Ronald Wohlman – EX SOUTH African copywriter, author, and actor – never dreamt that his lockdown diaries, written on Facebook and followed by people all over the world – would become his “life’s work”.
A Picture Of Peace?
Beware: Appearances can be deceptive
Flogging A (Battery-Driven) Dead Horse
Why plug-in vehicles are not all they’re cracked up to be– and, likely, never will be
Everybody Drinks Corona
I am hesitant to go Into the pub today. Not because it’s illegal, but there is a crème colored 1985 Mercedes 300D parked behind the pine tree. This means the devil is inside; that’s what we call Dr. De Villiers. You don’t know whether you will encounter the good doctor with the charming bedside manner or the violent, bipolar bully. The problem is, most of the time, you can never be sure which it is, so it’s best to always keep a social distance.
Never Take A Hypochondriac To A Pandemic
From Ronald Wohlman’s New York Corona Diary
The money train
Transnet in court battle with liquidators of Gupta-linked audit firm over R57m in ‘corrupt’ payments and invoices
‘He's no pharmaceutical genius, he's a vulture'
Pharma con seeks prison release to ‘help find Covid cure’
Bush school – A memoir
OUR SCHOOL WAS IN THE MIDDLE of the bush, ten miles from the nearest town in the harsh beauty of the Zimbabwean highveld. It started life in World War II as No 26 EFTS Guinea Fowl, a Royal Air Force elementary flying training school and I arrived there in 1954, just seven years after it became an all-white co-ed state boarding school.
