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Making headlines: Sars to hold briefing on KPMG report, Mantashe warns against factionalism And, Ramaphosa invokes Madiba and Biko

The South African Revenue Service will today host a media conference following last week’s KPMG announcement that it had withdrawn its report on the work the audit firm did for Sars and on behalf of the Gupta family.

This came as Trevor Hoole tendered his resignation on Friday as the chief executive of KPMG SA, with chief operating officer and country risk management partner Steven Louw also stepping down. Five other senior partners of KPMG SA also decided to leave the firm.

KPMG received criticism regarding the “Sars Report” in which it was commissioned by Sars to investigate allegations of a rogue unit allegedly set up by Pravin Gordhan, who was Sars commissioner at the time.

“The primary enemy of the ANC is the askari-impulse within its leadership,” ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe yesterday in Nyanga.

Mantashe was participating in a mini-rally at the Oscar Mphetha High School ahead of Tuesday’s by-election in Cape Town’s ward 37, in which Luyanda Nyingwa will represent the ANC.

He said after December’s elective conference society should be able to say the ANC is serious.

Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa invoked the names of Steve Biko and Nelson Mandela in his address at the official opening of the Empilisweni HIV/Aids and orphans centre in Ndevana in the Eastern Cape yesterday.

In his speech Ramaphosa said Empilisweni embodied the death-defying spirit and enduring resilience of the people.  

Ramaphosa said the centre will be “a shining monument to Madiba and the Constitution”.

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That’s a roundup of news making headlines today