Embattled South African Revenue Service (SARS) commissioner Tom Moyane is gearing for a court battle with President Cyril Ramaphosa, claiming his suspension as tax boss was irrational and curious. Moyane’s lawyer is preparing a major legal attack, challenging the disciplinary charges brought against him by Ramaphosa this week on the grounds that there was already a predetermined outcome to fire him from his R3.6m-a-year job. Moyane details a one-on-one meeting convened at Ramaphosa’s "private home" on March 18, when the president "shouted" at him, questioning him at length about a R70m value-added tax refund paid by SARS to Gupta company Oakbay. During the meeting, Ramaphosa asked how everything at SARS could be fine "when his [Moyane’s] ‘second-in-command’ Jonas Makwakwa was seen stuffing money into an ATM machine". Makwakwa had resigned days before, following reports that New Integrated Credit Solutions, which has a debt-collection deal with SARS, paid him R600,000. According to M...
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