Treasury scraps with Gigaba staff over 'smears'
Claim of irregular contract is to 'impugn Gordhan's legacy'
Tensions are starting to show between Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba's office and the Treasury as allegations of suppressed investigations and the running of parallel structures have surfaced. Cracks emerged this week as the Treasury wrangled with the office of the auditor-general over a R571-million contract awarded for the multibillion-rand Integrated Financial Management System. The system was envisioned to integrate all government payments into a single platform. The row includes allegations by Gigaba's backers that former finance minister Pravin Gordhan's administration, led by his director-general, Lungisa Fuzile, failed to act on an audit committee report on irregularities in the IFMS contract for more than a year. They allege the report was handed to Fuzile in March last year, but no action was taken. Treasury officials sympathetic to Gordhan hit back by alleging Gigaba was jeopardising the Treasury's "clean" reputation to tarnish his predecessor's legacy. "We cannot sit by ...
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