On January 15, British parliamentarian Lord Hain raised a number of issues in the UK’s House of Lords in relation to our employment-law work concerning Jonas Makwakwa and Kelly-Ann Elskie for the South African Revenue Service (SARS). This work has been extensively covered in SA’ s media and I gave evidence about it in December to Parliament’s standing committee on finance. Under the protection of parliamentary privilege, Lord Hain falsely described our work as a "whitewash" and sought to inaccurately portray our firm as a "willingly gullible or malevolent accomplice", allegations I reject without hesitation. Lord Hain seems to have relied on inaccurate information and did not take up our offer to discuss these issues before his statement to the UK parliament. He dismissed our efforts to brief other British peers as "a hostile act". His actions seem more like those of a publicist than a parliamentarian. I thank Lord Hain for his work over many years in support of SA and share his con...
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