The protector of the suspended public protector, Busisiwe Mkhwebane, was targeted by a retired American colonel
The consultants were brought in to counter ‘beholden judges’ after the courts set aside Busisiwe Mkhwebane’s reports
Advocate Nazreen Bawa said the calls for her to step aside were spurious and based on false allegations made by Barnabas Xulu, the some time attorney of Judge John Hlophe
Judge Sulet Potterill told the JSC the battle to bring women into the highest echelons of the judiciary will be won
The claim that the president knew that public money was abused by the ANC for internal campaigns and failed to report it was not substantiated
The public protector has issued a litany of frivolous objections aimed at blocking her impeachment
The Western Cape high court heard extensive argument on Friday as to whether the suspended public protector could be returned to office
President says court attributed bias to him due to suspended public protector’s past conduct
The acting public protector says the claims by the suspended public protector’ that the Phala Phala investigation has stalled and that she had been denied access to documents for her impeachment inquiry are false
In a fractious exchange after he was denied a postponement, Mpofu told the chairman he should “chill” and his “day will come”
The official opposition says the high court was wrong to conclude that the suspension was rushed and tainted by bias
There was a reasonable apprehension that the president was biased and his decision made in retaliation for her Phala Phala probe
The public protector does not have to be fit and proper but must be competent and honest
MPs have heard that she spent R146.9-million defending her reports, with a third going to an obscure law firm
Several witnesses have testified that Mkhwebane covered her tracks in investigations and court
Ponatshego Mogaladi, former manager of investigations at the public protector, told parliament the Economic Freedom Fighters leader sent her the report in 2018
Basani Baloyi testified she was shocked
The suspended public protector told him she would pleased if the probe into the scam delivered no adverse findings, Reginald Ndou tells inquiry
The president’s evidence is not necessary to determine whether she is guilty of misconduct, the section 194 committee concludes
It is the third report pertaining to Pillay that has been set aside by the high court
Mere forgiving and forgetting based on a lack of political will, incompetence, laziness, corrupt motives or even universal love, is not on
But her colleague told parliament he could not say whether the suspended public protector would rewrite findings produced by her office
The senior counsel suggested to MPs that everything a former employee of the public protector’s office said was a lie
The institution of the public protector said it would now invoke its powers of subpoena to get responses from the president on the burglary at his private game farm
The directive in the report that the mandate of the Reserve Bank be changed was dictated to the public protector by intelligence officials, a suspended employee testified
The suspended public protector did not disclose that she had a copy of a classified intelligence report on a high risk unit in Sars but a recording suggests otherwise
Advocate Dali Mpofu, appearing for the suspended public protector, insists that the president wrongfully suspend her and this taints the parliamentary process that could lead to her impeachment
The suspended public protector urged the Judicial Service Commission to investigate the incident further, saying the judges she named must be removed from the bench
The SCA president said she was shocked by a leak from the apex court, days after an investigation ordered by Chief Justice Raymond Zondo found that there could not have been one
The president rejected the demand that he lift her suspension as public protector and said he would defend his decision in a legal challenge she sought to bring
The high court said her second rescission application did nothing to suspend the operation of a court order, and stressed the importance of accountability of the public protector
The decision came despite inventive litigation launched by the public protector to stave off both suspension and a parliamentary impeachment inquiry