Gordhan Expects Charges as South Africa Succession Battle Rages
- Hawks’s tax-unit move aims to discredit Zuma’s detractors
- Gordhan supports Ramaphosa, who ‘has integrity,’ he says
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Former South African Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan said he expects to be charged over an investigative unit set up when he ran the revenue service as a battle rages in the ruling African National Congress to choose a successor to President Jacob Zuma as party leader in December.
Gordhan, who was fired by Zuma in March, made his comments on Thursday, a day after a police unit known as the Hawks told his predecessor at the Finance Ministry, Trevor Manuel, and his then-deputy, Jabu Moleketi, to provide affidavits on the creation of the tax service’s division by Friday.