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Mail & Guardian reports that the Public Protector, Advocate Busisiwe Mkhwebane, has ordered President Cyril Ramaphosa to act against Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan for violating the Constitution.
This was in relation to the early retirement and pension payout granted to former SA Revenue Service (Sars) deputy commissioner Ivan Pillay during Gordhan’s first term as finance minister. Oupa Magashule was at the helm of Sars at the time. “The allegation that Gordhan irregularly approved the retirement of Mr Ivan Pillay with full retirement benefits and his subsequent retention at Sars is substantiated,” Mkhwebane said in a statement delivered at a media briefing on Friday. Mkhwebane indicated in her statement that Pillay had not requested the early retirement, nor did Magashule recommend it to Gordhan. She said that even if the retirement was contemplated, Gordhan was not authorised to approve it and that it amounted to irregular expenditure. “There was no retirement in fact and in law. If there was no retirement in fact and in law, it can be concluded that Mr Pillay was not entitled to early retirement with full pension benefits under any statutory provision,” she said.
- The original of a short report by Natasha Marrian is at Mail & Guardian
- Read too, Public Protector ‘owes Gordhan apology’ over guilty findings, at Sunday Tribune
- And also, Gordhan to challenge Mkhwebane’s report calling for his ‘disciplining’, at The Citizen
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