Sars-buster Tom leads by example

So Tom Moyane, the suspended head of the South African Revenue Service (Sars), went into battle early this past week. He got his advocate, Dali Mpofu (who moonlights as an Economic Freedom Fighters ideologue), to tell the Nugent commission investigating the disarray at Sars on Moyane’s watch that it was biased against him (as was the disciplinary hearing into his conduct).

Moyane stayed away from the commission, so he said he hadn’t been given a chance to defend himself against claims that he was a despot and nearly ruined Sars. Hence, argued Mpofu (if “argued” is not too strong), the whole commission should be dissolved and all the evidence so far deposed should be expunged. Or was it “extirpated”?

At any rate, such unwavering courage, such a refusal to give an inch, should be a lesson to us all. Few of us have the guts displayed by, for instance, Moyane’s mentor, former president Jacob Zuma, who said he’s not afraid of going to jail, even though he’s clearly doing his damnedest (as he has since about 2005) to stay out of it.

He’s no doubt doing that because, if he went to jail, he would be failing his many followers in the funeral business, as well as giving up his struggle to split the ANC in KwaZuluNatal, which of course he is doing for the greater good of South Africans of all skin colours and levels of poverty.

In that fighting spirit, I have written my own letter to Sars, which has been persecuting me by demanding money all the time: