EXCLUSIVE: Extract from The Inside Story of SARS’s Elite Crime-busting Unit
In a plot of Machiavellian proportions, Johann van Loggerenberg, who headed SARS’s elite crime-busting unit, and nearly the entire top management were forced to quit after reports about a "rogue unit" at the tax authority. In a groundbreaking new book he reveals what really happened at SARS and shows how the public was deceived.----What none of us had realised initially, but would start to understand as things unfolded over time, was that the campaign against us was apparently also aimed at Pravin Gordhan, or PG, as some liked to call him. After the 2014 general election, Gordhan was replaced by Nene as Finance Minister and appointed as Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs.With hindsight, the first indications that PG was also being targeted became evident in media reports from around November 2014. Whereas the Sunday Times articles had initially published photos only of me, and later of Ivan Pillay, former Deputy Commissioner of SARS, and group executive Peter...
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