{"id":321948,"date":"2019-10-02T15:42:43","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T13:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=321948"},"modified":"2019-10-02T15:43:11","modified_gmt":"2019-10-02T13:43:11","slug":"sars-it-head-leaves-with-immediate-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/government\/321948-sars-it-head-leaves-with-immediate-effect.html","title":{"rendered":"SARS IT head leaves with immediate effect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The South African Revenue Service (SARS) has terminated the services of suspended executives Mmamathe Makhekhe-Mokhuane and Luther Lebelo with immediate effect.<\/p>\n<p>In a brief statement on Wednesday, SARS said the move is part of Commissioner Edward Kieswetter\u2019s commitment to rebuilding internal and public confidence in the revenue collector.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFollowing interactions and information exchanged between SARS and Ms Makhekhe-Mokhuane and Mr Lebelo, respectively, it has been concluded that the two should, and have agreed to end the employment relationship with immediate effect,\u201d said the revenue service.<\/p>\n<p>Communication with the two executives was through their legal representatives.<\/p>\n<p>Lebelo, a former Group Executive: Employee Relations, was placed on suspension in July alongside former Chief Officer for Governance, International Relations, Strategy and Communications Hlengani Mathebula.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Officer for Human Capital and Development Teboho Mokoena, who has since left SARS, was also placed on suspension over serious misconduct allegations.<\/p>\n<p>The agreement between the revenue service and Makhekhe-Mokhuane and Lebelo will see SARS not proceeding with any further action against them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sanews.gov.za\/south-africa\/sars-parts-ways-two-execs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>SA News<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/government\/317021-sars-it-head-placed-on-suspension.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">SARS IT head placed on suspension<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The South African Revenue Service (SARS) has terminated the services of suspended executives Mmamathe Makhekhe-Mokhuane and Luther Lebelo with immediate effect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":340921,"featured_media":280389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18668],"tags":[58294,54721,509],"class_list":["post-321948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-it-head","tag-mmamathe-makhekhe-mokhuane","tag-sars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321948"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/340921"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321948"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":321950,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321948\/revisions\/321950"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}