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Former Sars Commissioner Tom Moyane was granted permission to question Public Business Minister Pravin Gordhan, and this has seen the accusations of racism against Gordhan and Moyane being disparaged, all of which has been denied.
Former South African Tax Service (Sars) Commissioner Tom Moyane at the state capture investigation in Johannesburg on November 30, 2020. Image: Xanderleigh Dookey / EWN
JOHANNESBURG – It has been an afternoon of heated exchanges between the lawyers of the former head of the South African Revenue Service (Sars), Tom Moyane, and the Minister of Public Enterprises, Pravin Gordhan, on the state capture commission.
Moyane was granted permission to question Gordhan and this has resulted in the accusations of racism against Gordhan and Moyane being disparaged, all of which has been denied.
Moyane’s attorney, attorney Dali Mpofu, submitted a transcript of a conversation between Gordhan and Moyane, which he said proved that Gordhan was arrogant.
Moyane also said Gordhan was mean when he excluded Moyane from sitting at the head table at a budget news conference.
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Mpofu said Gordhan gave then-Deputy Minister Mcebisi Jonas instructions to sideline Moyane even though he was the first Sars commissioner to collect one billion rand.
“You accept that he was the first Sars commissioner in the country to raise 1 trillion rand,” Mpofu told the minister.
Gordhan: “It may be correct. I have to check the records.”
“Well, he was the first and the second billion was also raised by him and the third. When he did that, he didn’t congratulate him. He specifically asked him not to come to the Budget press conference.”
Moyane claimed Gordhan was arrogant, petty jealousy, racist, and tried to deflect his own involvement in state capture and corruption – all accusations Gordhan denied.
But Mpofu said a phone conversation between them proved it.
“I tell you that in the South African context you tell a man over 50 or 60 to grow up, you are belittling him and it is a sign of racism.”
Gordhan: “Well, I reject your understanding and what you are telling me.”
Supreme Court Vice President Raymond Zondo previously ruled that Mpofu should not ask Gordhan about other people he had charged with state capture, including former President Jacob Zuma and public protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane.
WATCH: Cross-examination of Minister Pravin Gordhan’s state capture investigation by Tom Moyane
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