PATRICK BULGER | Kiss and curdle: making it, taking it, wasting it
It’s tax season again, to the ANC government’s clear delight. But what happens to all those billions when high-living cabinet ministers get their hands on the loot?
08 June 2023 - 21:27
ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula reckons South Africans should thank SA Revenue Service commissioner Edward Kieswetter for a job well done by “kissing” him (special exemption for e-filers, I hope). There’s two sides to every romance though, and if anyone deserves a kissing it’s South Africa’s hard-bitten taxpayers, more mauled than kissed. ..
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