Gordhan: Guptas plotting against Treasury and me
‘The real plot is the systematic and highly organised campaign by the Gupta family and its associates against the National Treasury, myself and other targets’
Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan has accused the politically connected Gupta family and their associates of plotting against him and the Treasury. The allegation was contained in the minister’s replying affidavit, filed in the High Court in Pretoria on Monday. It formed part of the minister’s application for a declaratory order confirming he could not intervene in a dispute between Oakbay Investments and four banks. A new onslaught, which follows a tumultuous 2016 for Gordhan, began again earlier this month with Oakbay Investments accusing him of using the judiciary to settle political scores and renewed calls for President Jacob Zuma to fire him. Oakbay Investments acting CE Ronica Ragavan, in her answering affidavit, accused Gordhan of orchestrating a campaign against the Gupta family. In her affidavit, she alleged that Gordhan had given an instruction to captains of industry to "clip the wings" of the Gupta family, which had resulted in 24 businesses disassociating themselves from...
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