S.Africa: Sacked finance minister says intelligence report used to fire him was nonsense

Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan delivers his 2017 Budget Speech to Parliament in Cape Town, South Africa, February 22, 2017. REUTERS/Mike Hutchings

PRETORIA – South Africa’s outgoing Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan said on Friday an intelligence report President Jacob Zuma used as justification to fire him was “absolute nonsense”.

Gordhan also said during a televised press conference in Pretoria on Friday that he had been “sickened” by allegations that he had secret meetings to undermine the government during an investor roadshow abroad.

 

Source – Reuters

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