The top 10 stories to watch in SA this week
It’s a busy week, as Tom Moyane and Siyabonga Gama fight to keep their jobs, Ramaphosa and Mboweni head to Germany, and S&P issues a report on SA
1. Tom Moyane: President Cyril Ramaphosa will clarify the suspended SA Revenue Service commissioner’s (Sars) future this week. Moyane had until last Friday to make representation to the president on retired judge Robert Nugent’s scathing report on his role in Sars’s decline. Nugent recommended Moyane be fired immediately. 2. Fireblade: Businessman Nicky Oppenheimer and his son Jonathan are to explain to MPs on Tuesday how their firm, Fireblade Aviation, came to operate a private terminal at OR Tambo International without an official agreement. Parliament is looking into a dispute between Fireblade and home affairs minister Malusi Gigaba. 3. Siyabonga Gama: Like Moyane, Gama is fighting to keep his job after being fired as Transnet CEO. The labour court is expected to rule on his urgent application on Tuesday. 4. G20 Africa: Ramaphosa and finance minister Tito Mboweni headed to Berlin on Sunday for the G20 Africa conference, which will discuss progress on the Compact with Africa. Ram...
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