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DA demands Malusi Gigaba’s resignation

Pretoria - Democratic Alliance leader Mmusi Maimane has likened what he calls the capture of the treasury to a football game, saying the African National Congress has been kicking the Treasury back and forth like a soccer ball so that they can control it for the purposes of the controversial Gupta family.

The DA staged a picket outside the Treasury’s offices in Tshwane on Thursday morning, demanding that Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba resigns with immediate effect so that “we remove the hands of the Guptas from our Treasury and our money”.

“Our greatest challenge is that Treasury now has been captured by a finance minister who was deployed from having done damage at SAA, at Eskom and now he comes to Treasury.

"We are here to fight for the defence of Treasury. We want to make sure the resources of this country, the R1.4 trillion budget, are used for the purposes of the people of South Africa. Too many people in our country are poor, too many people are unemployed,” said Maimane.

Over a 1 000 DA supporters clad in blue, some chanting Zupta must fall, listened attentively as Maimane said the country was in a fight for the future of South Africa.

“This fight is between those who are benefiting from the current corrupt system and those who believe we need to change this corrupt system totally.”

“Just over 100 days ago, Malusi Gigaba was appointed Minister of Finance, after Jacob Zuma swiftly fired Pravin Gordhan as he [Gordhan] refused to allow the Guptas [to take] control over the people’s money

“It has been a long standing desire of Jacob Zuma and the Guptas to take full control of the Treasury, in order to control the flow of all public money,” Maimane claimed.

Maimane said former finance minister Gordhan had made it clear that he was no one’s puppet, which is why Zuma and the Guptas resorted to a plan B; “fire Pravin Gordhan and replace him with a proven loyalist: Malusi Gigaba.”

“There is no question where Malusi Gigaba stands in the fight to change this corrupt system. Since 2010, when he was first appointed as a Minister in the Cabinet, Gigaba has been doing the Guptas' bidding.”

Maimane has alleged that Gigaba’s main job as public enterprises minister was to capture the parastatals for the benefit of the Guptas.

Maimane said Gigaba's appointments on the boards of Eskom, Denel, Prasa and Transnet allowed the Guptas to control those state owned enterprises and with his move to minister of home affairs, he “rolled out the red carpet for the Guptas' friends, employees and business partners to easily gain citizenship and access to the country.”

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