Cyril Ramaphosa hits back at Tom Moyane’s objections to his disciplinary enquiry
President Cyril Ramaphosa has hit back at suspended South African Revenue Service (SARS) commissioner Tom Moyane, describing his technical objections to the disciplinary inquiry against him as "irregular", and which "flies in the face of sound legal principle", and serves to delay the process to the "prejudice of SARS and the country". In a stinging response to Moyane’s objections — to be heard by the chairman of the inquiry, Advocate Azhar Bham on Saturday — Ramaphosa, through his attorneys, said Moyane is effectively "sabotaging" the speedy conclusion of the disciplinary inquiry against him. "If, as Mr Moyane has stated repeatedly in correspondence through his attorney, he seeks to clear his name as a matter or urgency, one would have expected him to answer to the substance of the allegations ... [against him]. "Instead, Mr Moyane seeks to turn sound disciplinary procedure on its head by refusing to answer to the substance of the allegations against him until his technical points ...
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