The public protector was grilled so badly in court that she was left fighting for her professional life
In June this year, Mkhwebane put her signature to a report that seemed to suggest that the government must recover R1.125-billion from Absa.
The hearing is expected to wrap on Wednesday afternoon or during the course of Thursday morning.
Gigaba has asked the court to overturn the entire Bankorp report rather than just striking down sections of it, as Absa and the Reserve Bank has asked
After getting wrong the law and the facts, the public protector outsourced the process of trying to justify a crucial report, ABSA told the court.
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The Reserve Bank and Absa have lost their cool and the court battle promises to be ugly
Public protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane faces a bruising day in court on Friday, if papers from the Reserve Bank are anything to go by.
The president has a seemingly endless arsenal of surprising counterarguments
The president had originally suggested the matter be sent back to Thuli Madonsela’s successor for further investigation.
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President Zuma is due to argue before the high court in Pretoria that he should not be forced to establish a commission of inquiry into state capture
By the end of her term, the public protector could pocket a shockingly over-inflated payout
The Portfolio Committee on Justice and Correctional Services agreed to hold an inquiry into on Mkhwebane’s conduct over the past year.
MPs have decided the justice and correctional services portfolio committee will look into the Mkhwebane’s fitness to hold office.
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Those allegations are not only unfounded but malicious, Mkhwebane says.
Public protector made findings against Absa without pursuing evidence submitted by key witnesses, says Maria Ramos.
The public protector has defended her undisclosed meetings with the presidency and SSA saying nothing was untoward.
Zuma offered a new and seemingly contradictory explanation as to why he originally did not seek a stay of his obligation to set up an inquiry.
"She’s setting the record straight … currently, how things are playing out, it’s a bit silly."
The public protector has been exposed as incompetent after trying to meddle with the constitutional mandate of the country’s central bank.
Mkhwebane must pay costs for the application, up to and including the filing of her answering affidavit, the judge said.
In its application to review Mkhwebane’s report the Reserve Bank listed what it calls a number of “evidential factual inaccuracies therein”.
Questions have been raised as her name isn’t on the roll of advocates kept by the department of justice and updated monthly.
Absa is fighting to overturn Mkhwebane’s findings on a ‘misappropriated’ Bankorp bailout
Mkhwebane has, according to the Reserve Bank, the minister of finance and Absa, abandoned the idea of fairness.
Mkhwebane further argues that Zuma cannot decide who will chair the commission as he has a direct personal or financial interest in its outcome
Busisiwe Mkhwebane won’t oppose the Bank’s application to have the report reviewed but the Bank says there are factual inaccuracies in the report.
Cleopatra Mosana says that "crafting" errors had been made when the public protector’s findings on the apartheid-era loan to Bankorp was written.
The EFF has called on Busisiwe Mkhwebane to "do the honourable thing" and step down as public protector.