South Africa's regarded previous fund serve Pravin Gordhan detailed radical restriction pioneer Julius Malema to police on Monday for purportedly impelling brutality following fiery comments he made a week ago. Malema, who drives the Economic Freedom Fighters party, dissented outside a continuous defilement request where Gordhan was giving proof a week ago, blaming the clergyman for being "degenerate" and "a canine".
“When we are trying to build one nation, we can’t have people using the kind of language they’ve been using and the kind of attacks they’ve been using,” Gordhan told journalists in front of a police station in the capital Pretoria.
He accused Malema of defamation and inciting public violence and said it was
now up to police officers to investigate.
“This combination of the attack on one’s dignity, the attack on society more
generally, propagating hate in society has to be stopped,” added Gordhan.
Gordhan
was finance minister before he was abruptly fired by former president Jacob
Zuma in March 2017 and is now the minister of state-owned companies.
He was
seen as a bulwark against corruption in Zuma’s government and reportedly
clashed with the president over the issue of graft.
“There
were remarks made outside the (inquiry) which said there could be casualties
and if you go on attacking people the way you are… the next logical point is
are we facing some kind of physical harm — or even elimination,” added Gordhan.
“You’re
promoting hatred.”
Gordan who
last week gave evidence to the commission probing graft under Zuma, has
estimated that around 100 billion rand ($7 billion, 6.2 billion euros) may have
been stolen through corrupt government tenders.
He said he
was “an unwitting member of an executive… which was lied to, manipulated and
abused for the benefit of a few families”.
“We
allowed a climate of impunity in respect of crime and corruption to emerge.”
The
commission, which opened in August, is probing allegations Zuma organised a web
of graft at government departments and public enterprises in a scandal known as
“state capture”.
Zuma was
forced to resign in February over allegations centring around the Guptas, a
wealthy Indian migrant business family at the heart of the scandal.
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