NEWS ANALYSIS: Cabal aims for Ivan Pillay in the last kicks of a dying horse
The resuscitation of charges against former South African Revenue Service (SARS) officials Ivan Pillay and Johann van Loggerenberg has largely been seen as the last kicks of a dying horse. The "rogue unit" case at SARS was the first sign of the stepping up of the state-capture project, culminating in the removal of Nhlanhla Nene as finance minister in 2015. For nearly three years and after five investigations, charges involving the unit have hovered over former SARS officials like a dark cloud. Slowly, the narrative was rolled back — from the NPA’s embarrassing about-turn in the charging of Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan in 2016, to KPMG retracting parts of its discredited report on the unit in 2017. Significantly, it also refunded the R23m SARS paid it for the work, which it used to cull the organisation of Gordhan loyalists since 2014. Now SARS commissioner Tom Moyane faces an inquiry into his running of the organisation and is set to be grilled in Parliament over his ...
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