Johannesburg – Former finance minister Pravin Gordhan was the target of a secret misinformation campaign aimed at bringing him into discredit with President Jacob Zuma as well as destabilising the taxman, sister publication Beeld reported on Wednesday.
Beeld newspaper, part of netwerk24, reported that the bitter fruits of this campaign, already six years under way, are clear from the past few months' chaos at the South African Revenue Service (SARS).
Project Broken Arrow, an "organised effort" by ousted Sars employees, involved the spreading of rumours of a "covert and surreptitious investigation unit" within Sars, documents seen by Beeld show.