56 YEARS OF SPORT

six signatures to authorise a preservation order on a group of companies.

They currently need between eight and 12. “We’ve lost possibly hundreds of millions of rands in the past few years due to these inefficiencies.”

Keith Hendrickse, former senior manager of the national projects office in the Western Cape, said the office was left off the Sars organogram when the new operating model was adopted.

He became a senior specialist for criminal case selection after requesting a new job title. He said when Sars was previously asked to explain what happened to this capability, it claimed it was still in the organisation. He said this was misleading. “The people were in Sars, but the capability was no longer there.”