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What a tweet: Why on Earth did Mkhwebane take her Gordhan spat online?

07 June 2019 - 08:00 By Karyn Maughan
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Public protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane has tried to justify why she took her battle with public enterprise minister Pravin Gordhan to social media.
Public protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane has tried to justify why she took her battle with public enterprise minister Pravin Gordhan to social media.
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Public protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane turned to Twitter to announce that public enterprises minister Pravin Gordhan was implicated in her Sars investigation because he himself had been “running to the media”.

This is according to her spokesperson, Oupa Segalwe, when asked why Gordhan had been singled out on social media.

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