President Cyril Ramaphosa has 30 days to “take appropriate disciplinary action” against Pravin Gordhan after the PublicProtector found the Public Enterprises Minister violated the Constitution.
JOHANNESBURG – Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane on Friday said her office found Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan violated Section 41 of the Constitution when allowing a so-called South African Revenue Service "rogue" unit to operate during his tenure as the tax agency’s commissioner.The Public Protector found that establishment of the unit was in violation of the country’s intelligence legislation.
Gordhan, former Sars deputy commissioner Ivan Pillay, and former Sars group executive for tax and customs enforcement investigations Johann van Loggerenberg laid a complaint against the publication after their series of reports in 2014 on Sars and the unit. The reports accused the unit of running a brothel and spying on President Jacob Zuma, among other things.
Mkhwebane ordered President Cyril Ramaphosa to “take appropriate disciplinary action” against Gordhan within 30 days. The Public Protector also ordered that the minister should face an ethics investigation in Parliament. She also ordered the National Prosecuting Authority to finalise its prosecution into the "rogue" unit.
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