{"id":246966,"date":"2026-10-12T13:30:25","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T11:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-the-finance-minister-and-the-kianda-quagmire\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T13:30:25","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T11:30:25","slug":"angola-the-finance-minister-and-the-kianda-quagmire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-the-finance-minister-and-the-kianda-quagmire\/","title":{"rendered":"Angola: The Finance Minister and the Kianda Quagmire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"73\">Angola&#8217;s finance minister, Vera Daves de Sousa, has chosen to put her political authority behind officials at the General Tax Administration (AGT) implicated in Maka Angola&#8217;s investigation into the Kianda companies. After Jos\u00e9 Leiria, the AGT&#8217;s former chairman, became Secretary of State for Tax Affairs on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/governo.gov.ao\/biografia\/secret%C3%A1rio-de-estado\/jos%C3%A9-vieira-nuno-leiria\/ministro-das-finan%C3%A7as\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">8 September 2026<\/a>, Daves appointed Br\u00e1ulio Assis as his chief of staff. The team is moving up the state hierarchy. Questions about its business dealings remain unanswered.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"84\">Assis chaired the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202610120003.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Angola\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/angola\/\">Angola<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Angola&#8217;s finance minister, Vera Daves de Sousa, has chosen to put her political authority behind officials at the General Tax Administration (AGT) implicated in Maka Angola&#8217;s investigation into the Kianda companies. After Jos\u00e9 Leiria, the AGT&#8217;s former chairman, became Secretary of State for Tax Affairs on 8 September 2026, Daves appointed Br\u00e1ulio Assis as his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":246967,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4262],"tags":[258,256,3941,4263,7829,55634,5941,257,45669,254],"class_list":["post-246966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-angola","tag-angola-news","tag-finance","tag-kianda","tag-minister","tag-news","tag-quagmire","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}