KPMG damage-control machine homes in on Gordhan and Jonas
KPMG International continued its bid to defuse the crisis around its South African operations on Thursday, with international chairman John Veihmeyer holding a meeting with former finance minister Pravin Gordhan in Johannesburg. Gordhan, who was fired from his post partly as a result of KPMG’s South African Revenue Service (SARS) report and who saw many of his former SARS colleagues dismissed because of it, rejected the apology made by Veihmeyer last week, when he withdrew the 2015 report, and threatened legal action. Gordhan said that KPMG’s "regret" did not come close to acknowledging the damage the report had done to SARS and the livelihoods of honest and professional public servants. He asked why the firm had not approached him to offer a personal apology and urged it to declare that the SARS "rogue unit" had been legal. Gordhan was accompanied by his former deputy, Mcebisi Jonas. In a statement issued after the meeting, they said they had agreed to meet KPMG but reserved their ...
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