Moyane disciplinary hearing postponed
Updated | By Sinethemba Madolo
The disciplinary hearing of the suspended commissioner of the South African Revenue Service, Tom Moyane, has been postponed.
The hearing was postponed on Thursday pending the outcome of the Constitutional Court challenge against President Cyril Ramaphosa.
Earlier on Thursday Advocate Azhar Bham heard arguments for and against the postponement, in light of Moyane's court application which was filed earlier this week.
Moyane is asking the highest court in the land to set aside or postpone either the Nugent Commission of Inquiry into governance at SARS during Moyane’s tenure or the disciplinary inquiry, saying that having both processes run concurrently is an infringement to his rights.
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Moyane was suspended by President Cyril Ramaphosa in March.
He is facing charges relating to his handling of a damning Financial Intelligence Centre report into cash payments to his Jonas Makwakwa, making unauthorised bonus payments to SARS management, misleading Parliament, and instructing a SARS official not to co-operate with a KPMG investigation into the SARS High-Risk Investigations Unit.
Moyane's lawyer, Eric Mabuza, says it was agreed that proceeding with the hearing in light of the court challenge would be a waste of time and resources.
"Bham also confirmed that the complaints that we have raised are not frivolous therefore he would not want to continue with the disciplinary inquiry.
So in a sense you can say this was round one in our Constitutional Court challenge.”
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