South African Revenue Service (SARS) commissioner Tom Moyane admitted that the saga around his second in charge, Jonas Makwakwa, who resigned under a cloud on Wednesday, should have been handled “differently and better”. Moyane announced Makwakwa’s resignation at a hastily convened press conference on Wednesday, saying Makwakwa was on the verge of being suspended again — but he resigned instead. This time, Makwakwa’s suspension related to his appointment of debt collector New Integrated Credit Solutions (NICS) to assist with the tax agency’s debt collection. The company was identified in the Financial Intelligence Centre (FIC) report that alerted SARS about some R1.2m in suspicious and unusual payments into Makwakwa’s bank account and that of his partner, Kelly-Ann Elskie. Payments from NICS flowed to a company, Biz Fire Worx, of which Makwakwa is a director, according to the FIC report. On Wednesday, Moyane said the Makwakwa saga had “taught SARS a valuable lesson” and that it coul...
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