Does Tom Moyane the SARS commissioner think that the general public are a bunch of imbeciles and will believe anything and everything that he says? So, during his conference on Monday, he comes up with the following, after he criticised and rebuked everyone else as unethical and disingenuous, except the real culprits, by saying: "We do our work openly without fear or favour" (and when I listen to this expression my blood pressure rises as it has become the ANC slogan to put us to sleep and rob us blind) and continues with more lies, declaring that "we treat all the taxpayers without any favour whatsoever". Oh, really? Why then didn’t he go after the Guptas when they declared that their yearly income was about R1m and he accepted it as such without any querying? He did absolutely nothing, because he is as compromised and complicit in corruption as everyone else appointed by Jacob Zuma — as time has shown, and this was the reason. When Zuma was forced to reappoint Pravin Gordhan as ou...

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