Minister of Public Enterprises Pravin Gordhan is seeking an extension on the submission of his affidavit to Busisiwe Mkhwebane’s subpoena related to a complaint brought lodged by Floyd Shivambu, the deputy president of the Economic Freedom Fighters.
Minister of Public Enterprises Pravin Gordhan needs more time to respond to the Public Protector about the so-called “rogue unit”. Gordhan is seeking an extension on the submission of his affidavit to Busisiwe Mkhwebane’s subpoena related to a complaint brought lodged by Floyd Shivambu, the deputy president of the Economic Freedom Fighters.
Exactly a month later, Mkhwebane subpoenaed Gordhan to submit a replying affidavit by 1pm on April 23 in the matter dating back to his time as the revenue collection service’s commissioner. Gordhan was Sars commissioner between November 1999 and May 2009 and Magashula from 2009 to 2013. Mkhwebane wants Gordhan and Magashula to respond to questions about whether Sars’ pursuit of the tax affairs of Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema, “without a legal basis”, was “based on an instruction from Mr Gordhan”, who was finance minister in 2012.
Lackay said there was no intention on the part of Gordhan to undermine the office of the public protector. “We have issued a statement recently. No one is undermining the office of the public protector. This minister is part of the group of people that negotiated the Constitution that we have today.”
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