Gordhan calls for fight-back against anti-graft drive to be exposed

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'What you have witnessed is a defence of state capture,' he said after disruptive EFF members were removed before he gave his budget vote speech.

Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan addressing media ahead of his budget vote speech in parliament, 11 July 2019. Picture: ANA

“If the fightback against the kind of changes that we are trying to make to stop the malfeasance, to get rid of the corruption, to clean up the procurement lines, to get the cost structures in each of these entities appropriately balanced, if we get that right, without the kind of interference that we are seeing at the moment, then we should be on a fairly good footing in the next 18 to 24 months,” he said.

The minister has asked the court for an interdict to halt the implementation of remedial action Mkhwebane ordered against him, pending a full review of her finding that he flouted the law in the appointment of an intelligence unit within the South African Revenue Service.

 

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