Gordhan: Moyane’s bid to grill me an EFF ploy
In his testimony last year, the minister claimed he had been targeted through a malicious prosecution
Public enterprises minister Pravin Gordhan is fighting a bid by axed SA Revenue Service (Sars) commissioner Tom Moyane to cross-examine him at the Zondo state-capture inquiry, on the basis, among other things, that Moyane is being used to advance the EFF’s political campaign against him. Gordhan is believed to have raised the fact that Moyane is being represented by advocate Dali Mpofu, a senior office-bearer in the EFF, to make his case that Moyane’s efforts to cross-examine him are being driven by political, rather than legal, considerations. The minister is also believed to be using the findings of the Nugent commission, which recommended that President Cyril Ramaphosa fire Moyane, to argue that the issues Moyane could question him about have already been decided, so cross-examination about them now is redundant. Moyane, in turn, has dismissed any suggestion that he is merely a pawn in the EFF’s war with Gordhan, which has led to the minister pursuing a hate speech complaint agai...
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