“These cases are not gathering dust; they are being probed,” Hawks spokesperson Hangwani Mulaudzi said on Thursday.
Busisiwe Mkhwebane has made no move to probe four parastatals, the president, the mining minister and a bank.
The treasury didn’t divert US money to persecute the president, which is just as well, because $3-billion in funding is plugging important holes
The president told the National Council of Provinces on Tuesday that he was merely exercising his ‘legal right’ through the action.
Hidden in her old Twitter account is proof that Busisiwe Mkhwebane is decidedly middle-class.
The public protector said she was not in a position to advocate that the report, which her predecessor had prepared and finalised, be released.
The current developments in national politics are curious enough to make anyone question their sanity.
The former public protector says the funding was received by government and allocated to Chapter 9 institutions including the public protector office.
Personal touches aside, there’s irony in the new public protector’s priorities.
On her first outing, Thuli Madonsela’s successor Busisiwe Mkhwebane has made several vows she cannot possibly keep.
The new public protector said she had not read the report and was in the process of preparing an affidavit which is due on Friday.
Busisiwe Mkhwebane briefed parliamentarians on the institution’s annual report in her debut briefing at Parliament as SA’s new public protector.
The new public protector the office’s annual report to. the Justice Committee
Busisiwe Mkhwebane and her team are due to brief Parliament on the entity’s annual performance for the 2015/16 financial year on Wednesday.
The party has written to the speaker of Parliament, Baleka Mbete, to demand the tabling of the letter.
Public protector Thuli Madonsela’s report was due to be released on Friday, but this seems unlikely.
Madonsela said Zuma’s legal team spent most of their four-hour meeting arguing that it be deferred to incoming public protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane.
Busisiwe Mkhwebane is the new public protector leaving Thuli Madonsela with eight days to complete her preliminary report into the Guptas and Zuma.
While in Asia, Busisiwe Mkhwebane, SA’s next public protector, was a ‘nice African lady’
Mkhwebane’s most recent job was with the State Security Agency.