Business Leadership SA, Amnesty International, the Helen Suzman Foundation, Freedom Under Law and the Council for the Advancement of the SA Constitution stand up for Pravin GordhanThe SA Communist Party, supported by more than 20 civil society organisations, on Thursday came to the defence of public enterprises minister Pravin Gordhan.
Thursday’s event marked the revival of a grassroots campaign against Zuma and state capture that led to his downfall a couple of years ago. Zuma was forced to resign from office in February 2018 when the ANC’s national executive committee recalled him as a result of state capture allegations involving him, his son Duduzane and the controversial Gupta family.
“Theirs is an attempt to subvert the processes underway to rebuild efficient and ethical governance so that they may remain unaccountable,” Mashilo said. Public protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane ordered remedial action against Gordhan in two separate reports in what the group said was part of the fightback campaign. One related to the early pension payout of former deputy Sars commissioner Ivan Pillay, while the other related to the so-called rogue unit which was established when Gordhan was Sars commissioner. Gordhan has taken both reports on judicial review.
Solly Mapaila, deputy general secretary of the SACP, came out strongly in support of the former Sars officials who were implicated in the rogue unit saga. He said Gordhan had been singled out as a stumbling block in the fight against corruption by some in state-owned enterprises who believe that a fight against corruption is a “fight against blackness”.
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