NATASHA MARRIAN: Cyril Ramaphosa needs to fire selfish Tom Moyane now to spare SA more damage
When President Cyril Ramaphosa chose to suspend SA Revenue Service (Sars) commissioner Tom Moyane, instead of firing him, he was being decidedly generous. At the time, the president made it clear that he had lost confidence in Moyane, which should have been enough to remove the errant public servant from his post. Instead, Ramaphosa chose the long road. The effect of this is that evidence of Moyane’s deviant and sinister leadership of Sars continues to mount and Moyane continues to hold the tax agency and taxpayers to ransom. So it was no surprise that a recommendation for the removal of Moyane emerged from the assessment of Sars’s management by the commission of inquiry into governance and administration at the tax agency chaired by retired judge Robert Nugent. From day one of the public hearings it was clear that Sars haemorrhaged skills, resources and money, and suffered serious damage to its functioning due to the selfish and personal ambitions of one man, fuelled by disgruntled...
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