Pityana's public plea to Zuma: 'I beg you my big brother, hand over the reins'
By ZINE GEORGE, GRAEME HOSKEN and SHAUN SMILLIE PRESIDENT Jacob Zuma was roasted yesterday and his deputy, Cyril Ramaphosa, tore a strip off the Hawks for their bull-in-a-China-shop handling of the Pravin Gordhan case.At the funeral of former Eastern Cape premier Makhenkesi Stofile, at the University of Fort Hare in Alice, Ramaphosa said he had full confidence in Gordhan, as Zuma himself has claimed.But he also said: “Whatever the agencies of government must do, they must do it in a way that does not disturb our economy, that does not demonstrate to our people that we are a government at war with itself.”Ramaphosa was at the funeral representing Zuma, who is out of the country. Gordhan — who was among those at the funeral — and several other former SA Revenue Service officials are facing an investigation into their actions in respect of a now defunct “rogue” intelligence unit set up by SARS almost a decade ago.Gordhan had been ordered to present himself at the Hawks‘ headquarters in...
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