"CAPE TOWN — Strange how disgraced SARS Commissioner Tom Moyane destructively stopped the revenue service’s modernisation project shortly before his friend Patrick Monyeki, acting as a “silent” empowerment partner of global advisory firm Gartner, helped put in a successful bid for a R200 million SARS IT contract.
SARS derived little or no taxpayer benefit from the work while
Gartner’s local point man was involved in questionable, possibly
criminal conduct, a red-faced managing partner of Gartner conceded to
the Nugent Commission of Inquiry this week. Gartner Managing Vice President Michael Lithgow’s
stout bid to cover for his local senior managing partner, Neville
Willemse, failed dismally. Willemse was subpoenaed anyway and gave shaky
testimony, revealing that Monyeki contacted him out of the blue shortly
after Monyeki’s friend, Moyane, halted the earlier SARS modernisation
project. The evolving State Capture/cronyism narrative is
proving that the culture of nepotism, corruption and impunity is/was
rife across both the private and public sectors. Again, we’re reminded
that human greed, like sexism, racism, xenophobia and homophobia, knows
no barriers, no matter how players attempt to spin the story. Further
proof as to why Judge Nugent recommended Moyane be summarily fired. Story, courtesy of the Daily Maverick. – Chris Bateman"* Read the full article on BizNews.
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