Traces of my stalker
PETER BRUCE: Time to stalk the stalkers
This week’s Bruce's List column is free to read. My cellphone records were accessed, but who was ultimately behind it?
Jacques Pauw’s new book, The President’s Keepers, almost smothered the Sunday Times yesterday, and rightly so. Citing what Pauw calls “impeccable sources” inside the SA Revenue Service (Sars) it accuses President Jacob Zuma of not paying his taxes during the first five years of his presidency, of taking R1m a month in salary (in addition to his official one) from KwaZulu entrepreneur Roy Moodley, and it accuses Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma of accepting funding for her campaign to become the leader of the ANC in December from a cigarette smuggler. Zuma will have quite a battle clearing his name before the December conference. Pauw suggests that the new head of Sars, Tom Moyane, an old Zuma family friend, has since ensured that Zuma is now tax compliant but that doesn’t answer any of the many questions his behaviour in his first term raises. We will have to wait and see how Zuma responds should he come under political pressure on the issue. What we won’t have to wait long for are the answer...
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