In the firmest signal yet that ex-Eskom chief Brian Molefe is headed for a finance portfolio, the ANC in Parliament has moved one of its MPs from the finance committee. While Makhosi Khoza has been discharged and moved to the public service and administration committee, no one has been appointed in her stead, according to the Announcements, Tablings and Committee Reports (ATC), or Parliament's work record, published on Monday. This leaves a finance committee vacancy ready to be filled by, for example, Molefe, as for the second year in a row Wednesday's Budget is overshadowed by political machinations. By MARIANNE MERTEN.
Budget 2016 was overshadowed by 27 questions the Hawks sent to Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan as part of their criminal investigation into seven-year-old matters related to his stint as South African Revenue Service (SARS) boss from 1999 to 2009.
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