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Mkhwebane plans to return to work on Tuesday

The office of the Public Protector says the suspension of Advocate Busisiwe Mkhwebane remains in place. This as the suspended Public Protector took to social media saying that her suspension is terminated, as the Section 194 committee has concluded its work. Mkhwebane says she has informed the President of her intention to return to work on Tuesday. Spokesperson for the Public Protector, Ndili Msoki says only the President can terminate the suspension […]

5 September 2023

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ANC admits it was wrong about former public protector Thuli Madonsela

The African National Congress (ANC) has conceded that it was wrong about the former public protector Thuli Madonsela who stood her ground on the principle of law in most of her cases. Some ANC members vilified Madonsela and called her a spy after her finding against the former President Jacob Zuma on the Nkandla matter. The ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula says they were wrong to criticise Madonsela regarding some of […]

17 July 2023

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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

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Mkhwebane to challenge Parliamentary process handed by high court

Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane says she is not running away from the parliamentary process to determine her fitness to hold office. However, the embattled incumbent says she intends to appeal a Western Cape High Court decision that paved the way for the Parliamentary process. The Constitutional Court this week found that she had lied under oath about meetings with former President Jacob Zuma. She had wanted to access his personal […]

18 December 2020

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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

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Public Protector judgment: implications for Parliament

The North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria's full-Bench judgment in the CR17-Bosasa case entrenched Parliament's powers, saved the legislature from having to do the impossible and provided further "evidence" for the removal proceedings of Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane. National Assembly Speaker Thandi Modise was the second respondent in the case, and the judgment impacts Parliament at first glance in the following three ways: 1. Entrench Parliament's powers The court found […]

11 March 2020

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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

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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

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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

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