Busisiwe Mkhwebane ‘disappointed’ by leaking of Gordhan subpoena
Department of public enterprises spokesperson Adrian Lackay says probes of Gordhan amount to a campaign to disrupt efforts to uncover and prosecute corruption in entities of government
Public protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane is “disappointed” by the leaking of a second subpoena for public enterprises minister Pravin Gordhan relating to her investigation into the SA Revenue Service's (Sars's) so-called rogue unit.
Mkhwebane lamented the comments made by Gordhan’s spokesperson, Adrian Lackay, which labelled the investigations into Gordhan a “fightback campaign to disrupt efforts to uncover and prosecute malfeasance and corruption in various entities of government”. Gordhan appeared before the public protector for the first time in November. This was in relation to the early pension payout to former Sars senior official Ivan Pillay during Gordhan's first stint as finance minister. Oupa Magashula was Sars commissioner at the time. The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) withdrew charges linked to the pension payout against Gordhan, Magashula and Pillay in October 2016. Mkhwebane received a complaint about the matter in November 2016 and acted on it only in Feb...
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