Zuma must intervene in Hawks probe of Pravin Gordhan, says Parks Tau
PRESIDENT Jacob Zuma must intervene in the Hawks investigation of Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan, because it is heightening chances that SA’s credit rating will be downgraded to junk, Johannesburg ANC chairperson Parks Tau says."The issues around the finance minister require urgent intervention because the single-most important task right now is to ensure that all of us as South Africans protect the economy of this country," Tau, the former mayor of the country’s financial hub, said in an interview on Wednesday."Right now we are creating uncertainty, and that uncertainty is not helping our ability to cohere around protecting the economy of this country."While Tau did not say Zuma should simply order an end to the police investigation, he suggested the inquiry, which became public in February, be accelerated.The Hawks police unit is probing the finance minister over an allegedly illicit surveillance unit set up when he led the national tax agency. Gordhan, in an interview with Bloom...
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