SARS' Tom Moyane suspended with 'immediate effect'

[Gordon_R]

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/art...-sars-commissioners-complaints-of-unfairness/

Suspended SARS Commissioner Tom Moyane’s complaints about the “unfairness” and “oppressive nature” of his disciplinary hearing have been dismissed in totality. Now, if Moyane still feels badly done by, the only options available to him are to challenge President Cyril Ramaphosa directly or to take the matter on review in the High Court.

 

[Thor]

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/art...-sars-commissioners-complaints-of-unfairness/

Nothing happened, nothing will happen, he is still free and don't face any consequences.

 

[Gordon_R]

With enough lawyers (paid from public funds), this process can be strung out forever: https://www.fin24.com/Economy/suspe...disciplinary-hearing-to-be-postponed-20181004

Suspended SARS commissioner Tom Moyane's disciplinary has been postponed.

The ruling was made by Advocate Azhar Bham, chairperson of the disciplinary inquiry into the former head of the tax agency. The hearing resumed on Thursday at the Arbitration Foundation of South Africa's offices in Sandton.

Bham delivered the ruling after two hours of deliberation.

He set out that it was "fair and just" to grant the postponement pending the outcome of the Constitutional Court.

 

[Vrotappel]

Typical delay tactics.

 

[Gordon_R]

https://www.fin24.com/Economy/judge...moyane-be-sacked-as-sars-boss-report-20181016

Judge Robert Nugent has recommended to President Cyril Ramaphosa that suspended SARS commissioner Tom Moyane be let go, according to a report by TimesLIVE.

The Presidency received the interim report on the Nugent Commission of Inquiry into SARS, Presidency spokesperson Khusela Diko confirmed to Fin24 on Tuesday. Diko said that the Presidency would make the report publicly available shortly.

 

[TysonRoux]

Lets see if Cyril acts promptly on this recommendation by Judge Nugent.

 

[ToxicBunny]

I honestly think cyril has to make the announcement tomorrow or he loses face

 

[R13...]

https://www.fin24.com/Economy/judge...moyane-be-sacked-as-sars-boss-report-20181016

Can he be let go on the recommendation of the separate inquiry rather than the one which was meant probe him specifically?

 

[Vrotappel]

CR has been moving way to slowly and Moody's is going to punish us all for it.

 

[Gordon_R]

Can he be let go on the recommendation of the separate inquiry rather than the one which was meant probe him specifically?

The details are a bit fuzzy (can't find links), but the SARS Commissioner is not constitutionally independent (like the Public Protector or the head of the NPA). IMO the President can dismiss him immediately, though there will be squabbling about payouts and pensions. Moyane may try his luck in court, but the balance of evidence is strong, and there is no rational reason to keep him any longer.

 

[R13...]

The details are a bit fuzzy (can't find links), but the SARS Commissioner is not constitutionally independent (like the Public Protector or the head of the NPA). IMO the President can dismiss him immediately, though there will be squabbling about payouts and pensions. Moyane may try his luck in court, but the balance of evidence is strong, and there is no rational reason to keep him any longer.

Unless he can be fired like a minister I assume he must be afforded due process. And yes I'm aware ol' Tom has done his best to avoid that process.

 

[Tim_vb]

Mark Kingon ..... potentially another implicated person?


Source https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/o...ersonal-scrutiny-by-calling-out-jacques-pauw/

There are far simpler explanations to why Kingon, or anyone else for that matter, couldn't investigate Zuma's tax affairs at the height of his power.

 

[Gordon_R]

Zapiro nails this one:

 

[Gordon_R]

https://www.fin24.com/Economy/moyane-fired-over-deeply-concerning-state-of-sars-ramaphosa-20181101

"President Cyril Ramaphosa has today, Thursday, 1 November 2018, terminated, with immediate effect, the appointment of Mr Tom Moyane as Commissioner of the South African Revenue Service (SARS)," the statement said. "This follows the recommendation made by the SARS Commission chaired by Judge Robert Nugent that immediate action is needed to forestall any further deterioration of our tax administration system."

"Of further, and in many ways greater, concern is your refusal to meaningfully participate in the SARS Commission in order to assist with identifying the root causes of the systemic failures at SARS and ways in which to arrest these."

 

[TysonRoux]

Nugent's a damn racist.

These cronies were so cocksure and brazen under Zupta's rule/protection.

 

[TheMightyQuinn]

And the lawyers and advocates laugh all the way to the bank...on our tax ZAR.

 

[yebocan]

one by one, slowly but surely....getting rid of the Zuma/Gupta stench

 

[mandana]

Finally, now we can move forward.

 

[TheChamp]

And the lawyers and advocates laugh all the way to the bank...on our tax ZAR.

Eish

 

[Gordon_R]

one by one, slowly but surely....getting rid of the Zuma/Gupta stench

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/art...sas-slo-mo-revolution-claims-a-crucial-scalp/

It is also another display of Ramaphosa’s patient approach to dealing with what once used to be State Capture HQ. For many months there have been impatient calls on him to act sooner and with more apparent vengeance, to remove Moyane, to appoint a new National Director of Public Prosecutions, to remove Malusi Gigaba, Bathabile Dlamini and Nomvula Mokonyane. Before that, there was a clamour for him to urgently remove Supra Mahumapelo, and before that, to speedily dispatch Zuma himself.

And yet, his approach in almost every case has simply been to institute whatever needs to be instituted, and then to sit back and wait. And each time it has worked for him, even if a legal process was not available.

Instead the nation saw, again as has happened so often recently, how testimony under oath can bear real political consequences. Current and former SARS officials queued up to explain what had happened at the institution. And then came the bombshell that Moyane had been planning what to do at SARS a full year before being appointed to the post, in collusion with the South African managing partner of Bain and Company, a consultancy that must surely join the ranks of KPMG and McKinsey in having to now apply for their social licence to continue operations in this country.

These astounding revelations, given under oath and broadcast live to the nation on radio and television, ensured that what is now called “the narrative” swung well behind Ramaphosa. Despite the protestations of Moyane’s lawyers, this was probably a turning point in the inquiry. There was not much support for Moyane even before the commission. Since the Bain admission, there have been almost no public gestures of support for Moyane. And who would support him now?