Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane’s report is being used as a political campaign against public enterprises minister Pravin Gordhan. This is what he is alleging, following the findings against him by the Public Protector in her report last Friday.
On Tuesday morning Gordhan filed an application to have the report set aside. The report found that Gordhan had acted improperly when he granted an early pension payout for former Sars official, Ivan Pillay.
• The Public Protector had no jurisdiction “to entertain this complaint since it related to matters that commenced in or about March 2009, more than 10 years ago”;• That its findings and remedial action are based on “flawed logic and a misunderstanding of the facts”;• It “imposes incompetent, inappropriate and improper remedial action on the President, [former Sars commissioner Oupa] Magashula and the commissioner”.
“I was told in that memorandum that Mr Pillay sought in this way to gain access to his pension fund to finance the education of his children.” “I believe that the report was issued when it was issued, with the findings and remedial action it contained, so as to enable a renewal of the ongoing political campaign against me by proponents of “state capture” and defenders of corruption,” Gordhan says in his application.
“This attempt to reheat a long cold dish and serve it up to the public as evidence of wrongdoing is on its own alarming. But that the Public Protector releases her report a mere two days after receiving responses from the implicated parties – failing to meaningfully engage those responses – makes a mockery of the most basic tenets of justice.
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