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    Hawks probe is ‘political mischief’: Gordhan

    News By Agency Staff4 October 2016
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    Finance minister Pravin Gordhan, left, with deputy finance minister Mcebisi Jonas and Reserve Bank governor Lesetja Kganyago
    Finance minister Pravin Gordhan, left, with deputy finance minister Mcebisi Jonas and Reserve Bank governor Lesetja Kganyago

    Finance minister Pravin Gordhan said the police investigation into him is nothing but “political mischief” and will be resolved soon.

    “As far as the so-called investigation is concerned, that’s no more than a bit of political mischief, which every country will have,” Gordhan said in an interview with Bloomberg TV in New York Tuesday. “I’m sure we in South Africa will resolve these issues.”

    Reports in August that he is being investigated by the police for overseeing the establishment of an allegedly illegal investigative unit when he led the Revenue Service between 1999 and 2009 hit the rand and bonds.

    The police and National Prosecuting Authority haven’t made contact with him since the week of 22 August, when he was ordered to present himself to the Hawks, a special police unit, Gordhan said.

    “They can’t make up their minds at the moment,” he said. “The latest news in the media is that they believe they don’t actually have a case.” Later, he told Bloomberg Radio “they’re wasting their time, they have better eggs to fry.”

    The minister led efforts earlier in the year boost the confidence in the economy. Gordhan is in New York with a delegation of business leaders and central bank governor Lesetja Kganyago for a conference with investors Tuesday and Wednesday. The currency slumped in August amid concern Gordhan would lose his job as a struggle over the government’s purse strings intensified.

    “The motive may well be that treasury has too diligent an eye on certain transactions that parts of the state might want to undertake, and those are sometimes big numbers,” Gordhan said. “We believe that we have a job to do, we have a law to pursue and implement and we have a constitution to abide by.”

    The country is at risk of losing its investment-level credit status as S&P Global Ratings and Fitch Ratings review their assessments in December. Both rate South Africa’s debt at one level above junk and S&P has a negative outlook on its rating.

    South Africa remains an “easy sell” to foreigners, Gordhan said. “We will convince the ratings agencies, together with business and labour, that if they give us more time as partners in the South Africa quest for high growth and more jobs being created, we can produce successful results,” he said.

    The rand weakened 0,4% to R13,65/US$ at 3.21pm in Johannesburg on Tuesday. Yields on rand-denominated government bonds due December 2026 fell five basis points to 8,53%.

    Africa’s most-industrialised economy expanded an annualised 3,3% in the three months through June, after contracting 1,2% in the prior quarter, as mining and manufacturing output rebounded. The central bank, which had predicted no growth this year, increased its forecast for expansion to 0,4% in 2016 at its 22 September meeting.

    “We are certainly going to be above the zero mark,” Gordhan said. The economic downturn has “bottomed out,” he said.  — (c) 2016 Bloomberg LP

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