Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan is "right" to go to court to face his fraud charges so that there will be clarity on what happened and a resolution to some of the political uncertainty, world-renowned scenario planner and strategist Clem Sunter says. "I do believe in the independence of the judiciary and … that Pravin Gordhan is perfectly right to fight this case unless there is something that has not been revealed by the person who is prosecuting him because it looks to me like something that is not a big deal," Sunter told a Deloitte function on Monday morning. Gordhan, who is scheduled to table the medium term budget in Parliament on Wednesday, will appear in court on November 2 on fraud charges relating to the granting of early retirement of Ivan Pillay from the South African Revenue Service. Sunter again called for an economic Codesa chaired by Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa, where township entrepreneurs would be invited to make presentations on which ways could best ensure t...
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