How will NPA deal with Gordhan vs Malema matter?
How will the police and the NPA deal with the matter and whose complaints will stand the test?
EFF leader Julius Malema brandished the constitution as he insisted in 2016 that Jacob Zuma resign as president in the wake of the Constitutional Court’s judgment on Nkandla. Now the erstwhile defender of the constitution is facing charges of breaching the highest law in the land.Public enterprises minister Pravin Gordhan has decided to fight back against a sustained EFF campaign to paint him and his family as corrupt.He has laid complaints with the police against Malema and his deputy, Floyd Shivambu, and has approached the Equality Court.Protesting outside the Zondo inquiry into state capture last week, Malema called Gordhan "a dog of white monopoly capital", saying: "We must hit the dog until the owner comes out."The EFF also alleges that his daughter is a director of several companies that have benefited from government contracts. Gordhan told the inquiry that when his daughter worked at Investec’s private equity division, it was the bank, not his daughter, that held the shares ...
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