The president, meanwhile, is also being investigated by the public protector.
Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane has written a letter to President Cyril Ramaphosa asking him to intervene in her battle against Minister of Public Enterprises Pravin Gordhan,In the letter, Gordhan is once again accused of trying to “interfere” with her investigation, an accusation MkhwebaneAccording to Mkhwebane, Gordhan’s “conduct throughout these investigations” has not been “protective and helpful towards the public protector to ensure its independence and impartiality”.
Gordhan’s spokesperson Adrian Lackay called the subpoena evidence of “persistent harassment of Minister Gordhan and a flagrant abuse of office”.His lawyers released a statement saying they would be “challenging the public protector to provide the factual basis for the statement suggesting that [the] minister is acting in concert with others and why he is referred to as an implicated party”.
In 2015, the press ombudsman ruled that the Sunday Times must retract all stories on the “rogue unit saga” and to apologise to Pravin Gordhan as well as others implicated after Gordhan, former Sars deputy commissioner Ivan Pillay, and former Sars executive Johann van Loggerenberg lodged a complaint.
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