The justice department ignored a 2018 public protector report about a policy vacuum for liquidators for three years, and 6 000 businesses have since folded
The application, widely seen as desperate, was dismissed with costs, burying her adverse findings against Ramaphosa over funding to his leadership campaign
Busisiwe Mkhwebane released a tranche of reports covering a range of allegations, including against the department of arts and culture
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The public protector has already asked the president about a recording on the diversion of state funds for ANC election campaigns
The president, in a letter to a watchdog parliamentary committee, confirmed the authenticity of a leaked recording in which the problem is discussed, but said he was talking only to allegations made publicly by others
The concourt ruled that parliament could proceed with the impeachment process of Busisiwe Mkhwebane, but that she was also entitled to legal representation
The Gauteng judge president’s words turned prophetic as he came under sustained political attack in his interview for the post of chief justice
ANC MP Mervyn Dirks has asked Busisiwe Mkhwebane to investigate Ramaphosa’s ‘failure to report corruption’
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The presidential bobbing and weaving over ANC campaign funding is about to come to an end
Democracy in Action argues in court papers that the president cannot receive the report because he is implicated, and demands it be given instead to the deputy president or the public protector, or both
Parliament and the Democratic Alliance are challenging the high court ruling that a judge may not form part of the panel conducting a preliminary inquiry as to whether there are grounds for impeaching the public protector
The Eastern Cape premier has been granted a temporary reprieve from the public protector’s remedial action, but the fight is far from over
A song about Eastern Cape Premier Oscar Mabuyane preventing looting was way off the mark in a province riddled with corruption and theft
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Oscar Mabuyane and MEC Babalo Madikizela allegedly used a portion of state funds for struggle icon Winnie Madikizela-Mandela’s commemoration for their own benefit
In papers filed on Tuesday, Mkhwebane said that she would abide by the court’s decision in the matter.
Eastern Cape’s head of public works Babalo Madikizela has hit back at Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane, saying she had no authority to investigate him
The Hawks have accused the NPA of ‘dragging its feet’ despite voluminous evidence against the Eastern Cape premier
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Eastern Cape Premier Mabuyane has suggested that ANC secretary general Ace Magashule is behind the fraud and corruption inquiry
The ANC in the Eastern Cape wants Premier Oscar Mabuyane and MEC Babalo Madikizela to submit themselves to the provincial integrity committee after a scathing report by the public protector.
The chief justice we didn’t know we needed protected the independence of the judiciary through dark days but leaves an ambivalent legacy
Public protector finds that money that was meant to celebrate the struggle icon was used to benefit senior politicians
The public protector has called for the impeachment process against her to be halted with immediate effect
The apex court agreed with one of the most scathing rulings yet against the public protector and found the president did nothing wrong
Seventeen investigative reports, undertaken by Busisiwe Mkhwebane’s office, detail gross negligence and maladministration in government structures
Democracy is everyone’s responsibility to defend. Now is a critical time to double up efforts to guard this nation’s constitutional integrity
Counsel argued the National Assembly had not delegated its power on weighing if there were grounds to remove the public protector, but canvassed advice
Advocate Dali Mpofu asked the high court to set aside parliament’s rules for an impeachment process and send legislators back to the drawing board
The public protector is not challenging her fitness to hold office, but the rule enabling the National Assembly to remove her from office
Health minister failed to appear before the protector three times this year, as the legal challenges against him stack up
The embattled Western Cape judge president readily agreed to recuse himself from hearing the public protector’s challenge of the rules governing the process to remove her from office
The high court has said it would be in the public interest given the importance of motions of no confidence in the president, to settle whether MPs can vote in secret
A funding policy loophole seems to be encouraging feeding at the trough at the NAC