Advocate Busisiwe Mkhwebane Archives

ATM calls for a secret ballot over Mkhwebane’s Section 194 Committee report

The African Transformation Movement (ATM) wants a secret ballot to be used in voting on the Section 194 Committee recommendation for the removal of the suspended Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane. The ATM leader Vuyo Zungula has written to the National Assembly Speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula on the issue. Mkhwebane’s fate is expected to be decided on Monday next week, at the City Hall using an open voting system. The committee’s report which […]

6 September 2023

Local

Parliament hearings into suspended public protector’s fitness to hold office commences

LOCAL Hearings into suspended public protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane’s fitness to hold office kicked off in parliament on Monday, as the section 194 committee began its inquiry. Evidence leader advocate Nazreen Bawa began the proceedings with a brief statement regarding the historic exercise of hearing evidence in its first-ever impeachment inquiry. “This committee sits as a first of its kind in SA, so it is sailing in uncharted waters. It should […]

11 July 2022

Local

Mkhwebane asks Parliament’s Justice Committee to intervene where remedial actions are not implemented

The office of the Public Protector has called on Parliament to assist with government departments and organisations that do not cooperate or implement her remedial actions. Senior management of the Public Protector appeared before Parliament’s Justice Committee to discuss its annual report for the last quarter of 2019/20 and the first quarter of 2020/21 financial year. Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane says one of the state organs not cooperating with the […]

9 October 2020

Local

Mkhwebane intent on destroying Public Protector’ office

Yet another damning disclosure concerning Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane’s conduct has been made to Parliament, piling pressure on her ahead of lawmakers’ probe into her fitness to hold office. Sphelo Samuel, the head of the Public Protector office in the Free State, is the latest official to submit an affidavit to Parliament, becoming the most senior staff member in Mkhwebane’s administration to do so to date. He submitted the affidavit […]

17 February 2020

Local

Public Protector vs Parliament: Mkwhebane puts up a fight over removal proceedings

Parliament has been engaging with Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane's lawyers over the legislature's proceedings to consider removing her, National Assembly Speaker Thandi Modise has said. "They are serving us with papers," Modise said when asked about the proceedings to remove Mkhwebane in terms of Section 194 of the Constitution at a press briefing ahead of next week's State of the Nation Address. Modise said she does not have a problem […]

7 February 2020

Local

Public Protector ‘is not rogue’: Mkhwebane’s lawyer tells court

The first of two days of arguments in President Cyril Ramaphosa's review application of Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane's report on his CR17 campaign, closed with sweeping statements over Ramaphosa's alleged dishonesty to Parliament. Counsel for Mkhwebane, advocate Muzi Sikhakhane SC made broad comparisons between Mkhwebane and former public protector Thuli Madonsela, pointing to judgments delivered by the same Gauteng High Court in Pretoria that defined the powers of a public […]

5 February 2020

Local

State of capture report referred to NPA and Hawks

DA leader Mmusi Miamane says public protector Advocate Busisiwe Mkhwebane confirmed to him she had referred the state of capture report to the national prosecuting authority and the directorate of priority crime investigation. She said this was done in line with the remedial action required by the report compiled by her predecessor Advocate Thuli Madonsela. Madonsela in her remedial action noted that the public protector act called for both the […]

27 November 2016

Advocate Busisiwe Mkhwebane

ATM calls for a secret ballot over Mkhwebane’s Section 194 Committee report

Parliament hearings into suspended public protector’s fitness to hold office commences

Mkhwebane asks Parliament’s Justice Committee to intervene where remedial actions are not implemented

Mkhwebane intent on destroying Public Protector’ office

Public Protector vs Parliament: Mkwhebane puts up a fight over removal proceedings

Public Protector ‘is not rogue’: Mkhwebane’s lawyer tells court

State of capture report referred to NPA and Hawks

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