Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan has challenged in court a report by the Public Protector that instructed President Cyril Ramaphosa to take unspecified disciplinary action against Gordhan.
The minister lodged an urgent application to suspend and interdict enforcement of the remedial orders by the Public Protector over the so-called ‘rogue unit’ during his tenure as Commissioner of the South African Revenue Service (SARS), as well as his alleged violation of the Executive Ethics Code.
Godhan’s lawyers confirmed this in a statement on Wednesday evening.
Last Friday, Busisiwe Mkhwebane made several damning findings against Gordhan during his time as the SARS commissioner.
Mkhwebane also found that Gordhan violated the Executive Ethics Code by ‘deliberately misleading the National Assembly by not disclosing that he
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