Is it game over for Zuma, Moyane, Abrahams and the Hawks?
Bruce's List: I’ve said it before; Zuma’s friends, not his enemies, will sink him
Bruce’s List: A guide to informed reads. When I returned to SA in 1996 after a self-imposed 20-year exile, I couldn’t help noticing what had happened to Afrikaans names. English had crept in to them. So you’d find yourself reading about Brian Pienaar, Norman de Klerk, Trevor Odendaal. For the first time I remember, I’ve just seen the reverse. Enter “Vlok” Symington. Vlok is a lawyer with the South African Revenue Service (Sars) and he is at the centre of easily the most sensational story of the year. In SA it takes a lot to bump a mini-budget off the top of the news cycle before you even wake up properly the next morning but Vlok has done it. It is hard to describe but the story, unearthed by Mail & Guardian reporter Pauli van Wyk, basically concerns efforts by the Hawks, the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) and Tom Moyane, President Jacob Zuma’s plant at the head of Sars, to scramble together an enhanced case of fraud against finance minister Pravin Gordhan. NPA head Shaun Abra...
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