BRUCE'S LIST: The Guptas renew their heroic struggle for a bank account
So it’s open season on Pravin Gordhan again, what with the Guptas firing off press releases and then their answering affidavit to Gordhan’s appeal to the courts last year to stop the Guptas trying to use him to get SA’s big banks doing business with them again. The Sunday Times reported yesterday that the Guptas intend suing Gordhan for plotting to ruin them, citing a meeting held with top business leaders in Sandton soon after he was recalled to treasury in December 2015. As I recall, Gordhan was invited to that meeting by its host, Jabu Mabuza, as part of an effort to go to Davos the following month and, as a united business/government/labour front, try to ward off a ratings downgrade. This was all just weeks after the Guptas had tried unsuccessfully to get David Des van Rooyen made finance minister. In fact, as we all know, they succeeded for four days before President Jacob Zuma was forced to retreat. It is going to take an extremely gullible court to take anything the Guptas of...
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