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BusinessLive reports that former president Jacob Zuma has backed up axed SA Revenue Service (Sars) commissioner Tom Moyane’s legal challenge in the Constitutional Court (ConCourt) against his dismissal, which followed the recommendations of a commission of inquiry.
Zuma has given sworn evidence that he never intended that the Sars commission of inquiry “deal with employment contracts of individual employees”. This pits the former president directly against President Cyril Ramaphosa, his successor, who is the first respondent in Moyane’s application in his fight to get his job back. Ramaphosa set up the Sars inquiry, though it was initially announced last year by then finance minister Malusi Gigaba. It was not implemented by Zuma, who sat on the matter until his removal in February. Ramaphosa fired Moyane earlier this month, after Judge Robert Nugent, who heads the Sars commission, submitted an interim report recommending that Moyane be dismissed. In an affidavit filed at the ConCourt on Tuesday, Zuma said the Sars commission had deviated from its originally intended purpose. Zuma’s evidence will be used by Moyane’s legal team to bolster their argument that the Nugent inquiry did not have the authority to make recommendations about employment issues, and so acted unlawfully.
- Read the full original of the report by Karyn Maughan at BusinessLive
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