SARS CORRUPTION
NATASHA MARRIAN: Rogues no longer in vogue for Moyane
It was in the same office building, in the same briefing room, but a very different South African Revenue Service (SARS) commissioner Tom Moyane addressed journalists on the resignation of his second-in-charge, Jonas Makwakwa. Almost a year ago, Moyane addressed journalists on his strained relationship with then finance minister Pravin Gordhan. It was a briefing in which he came out fighting, complaining that Gordhan treated him like a "nonentity" and shouted at him. Moyane’s combative stance in that briefing resembled his appearances before Parliament’s standing committee on finance while answering questions related to the Makwakwa controversy. It was also reminiscent of his stance on the auditor-general, with whom Moyane was in dispute over the declaration of bonus payments to executives as irregular spending.In his stance on Gordhan, the finance committee and Auditor-General Kimi Makwetu, Moyane was insistent that as SARS commissioner he was accountable to no one. Of course, this...
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