BUSINESS DAY TV: Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan will be undermined again
Piet Olivier, legal researcher at the Helen Suzman Foundation, and Lawson Naidoo, executive secretary of the Council for the Advancement of the South African Constitution, talk to Business Day TV. BUSINESS DAY TV: The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) has dropped fraud charges against Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan and former South African Revenue Service (SARS) officials Oupa Magashula and Ivan Pillay. NPA head Shaun Abrahams made the announcement at a media briefing this morning and already there have been calls for Abrahams to resign. Joining us on News Leader to discuss the detail are Piet Olivier — he is legal researcher at the Helen Suzman Foundation — and on the line we have Lawson Naidoo, executive secretary of the Council for the Advancement of the South African Constitution. Piet, Abrahams today saying he has the power to overrule his prosecutors but not to intervene in their decisions. So it seems a very roundabout way to get this end result. PIET OLIVIER: He does als...
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