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Gigaba found guilty of lying under oath shortly before delivering budget

Source: The Citizen, 21/02/2018

Gigaba found guilty of lying under oath shortly before delivering
budget
The Citizen - 21.2.2018
Scathing findings by a full bench of the high court against the
minister are being reviewed by his lawyers.
The High Court in Pretoria handed Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba a
bitter blow to his hopes of remaining in office on Friday when it
handed down judgment finding that he had lied under oath in his
testimony while he was still home affairs minister.
The opposition and civil society have been calling for Gigabaâ€™s removal
due to his perceived links to the Gupta family.
The matter before court related to an aviation company, Fireblade,
owned by the Oppenheimer family, which had wanted to open a private
international terminal at OR Tambo International Airport.
In legal papers released by the Democratic Alliance on Wednesday, Judge
Neil Tuchten found that the minister had been deliberate in his
untruths. â€œThe minister has committed a breach of the Constitution so
serious that I could characterise it as a violation.â€
The company had sued Gigaba for allegedly reneging on his pledge to
make officials available to them to staff their customs and immigration
facility. Gigaba denied that he had approved the terminal, but the
court ultimately found against him.
The minister said outside parliament in Cape Town, shortly before
delivering the Budget Speech, that he would take the matter on appeal
because â€œat no stage was there an agreement with Fireblade. Legally you
cannot have a private terminal for a family.â€

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