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Appealing: Public protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane wants former land minister Gugile Nkwinti to face the music for violating the executive ethics code and the Constitution. (Oupa Nkosi/M&G)
BUSISIWE MKHWEBANE

Public protector may not subpoena Zuma’s tax records, says high court

High court says people can refuse to hand information over to the protector if there is “just cause” and also makes a personal costs order against Mkhwebane

  • Franny Rabkin
3 min read
Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane. (David Harrison/M&G)
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS
Video

Politicians should take responsibility for Busisiwe Mkhwebane’s appointment

The process of appointing the public protector is flawed, and led by politicians who don’t seem to have paid attention to the law. This has to change

  • Dianne Hawker
7 min read
Axed public protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane. File photo by Madelene Cronje
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS

Reining in the public protector

As well as its scathing findings on Mkhwebane’s investigation into Ramaphosa, the high court also made important in-principle pronouncements

  • Franny Rabkin
6 min read
Former public protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane. (Oupa Nkosi)
BUSISIWE MKHWEBANE

Mkhwebane suspends another senior official

This brings to five the number of senior officials currently suspended — suspensions that have put her on a collision course with the Public Servants Association

  • Franny Rabkin
2 min read
Just cause: Former president Jacob Zuma may have consented to his tax records being viewed by the public protector, but Sars commissioner Edward Kieswetter says there is a bigger issue at stake. (Michele Spatari/AFP)
BUSISIWE MKHWEBANE

Zuma breaks silence on his tax records

But his last minute affidavit does not resolve the bigger legal dispute between the South African Revenue Service and the public protector

  • Franny Rabkin
5 min read
Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane. (David Harrison/M&G)
ACCOUNTABILITY NOW

Mkhwebane moves to halt ‘grossly unfair’ impeachment process

The public protector has labelled her possible impeachment as unconstitutional and unlawful

  • Franny Rabkin
3 min read
Former president Jacob Zuma and now leader of uMkhonto weSizwe party. File photo
BUSISIWE MKHWEBANE

Despite tweet, Zuma keeps silent about providing his taxpayer information

The Public Protector has still not received confirmation from former president Jacob Zuma that she may access his tax records — despite a tweet from Zuma’s twitter account in…

  • Franny Rabkin
4 min read
The suspended public protector told him she would pleased if the probe into the scam delivered no adverse findings, Reginald Ndou tells inquiry.
BUSISIWE MKHWEBANE

Public Protector won’t oppose Ramaphosa’s interdict application in Bosasa matter

This follows a letter from the NDPP to Mkhwebane asking whether there was a ‘misunderstanding’ about the mandates about of their respective offices

  • Franny Rabkin
5 min read
President Cyril Ramaphosa intends taking on legal review the section 89 independent panel’s adverse report on Phala Phala released earlier this week. (Brenton Geach/EPA)
BUSISIWE MKHWEBANE

Ramaphosa launches court review of Public Protector’s Bosasa Report

“The Public Protector has strayed,” says the President in his court papers.

  • Franny Rabkin
6 min read
In the firing line: The future is uncertain for public protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane after the Constitutional Court found that she did not fully understand her duties. (Felix Dlangamandla/Netwerk24)
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS

ANC fiddles as Mkhwebane burns

As the courts batter the public protector, the ANC in Parliament is trying to work out how to appear to be taking action while staying unified

  • Lester Kiewit
5 min read
Watching her step: On Monday the Constitutional Court upheld the high court’s personal costs order against public protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane in the Absa-Bankorp matter. (Phill Magakoe/AFP)
BUSISIWE MKHWEBANE

How to impeach the protector

After the Constitutional Court judgment against her, removing Mkhwebane from her position is the obvious next step. But it is a difficult process

  • Franny Rabkin
5 min read
Busisiwe Mkhwebane has submitted that the constitutional court made “patent errors” in the judgment, which confirmed that the rules adopted by a section 194 parliamentary committee for the conduct of the impeachment inquiry were lawful, barring one. (David Harrison/M&G)
BUSISIWE MKHWEBANE

Getting rid of Mkhwebane won’t be easy

Different factions with vested interests are aligning to protect the destructive protector

  • Richard Calland
8 min read
Suspended Public Protector, Busisiwe Mkhwebane. (Deaan Vivier/Gallo)
BUSISIWE MKHWEBANE

ConCourt finds against Mkhwebane, says she must pay costs in her personal capacity

The judgment is a boost for Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan who is litigating against Mkhwebane in two separate cases

  • Franny Rabkin
5 min read
DA leader Mmusi Maimane looks forward to the public protector releasing President Cyril Ramaphosa’s Bosasa donation report. (David Harrison/M&G)
BUSISIWE MKHWEBANE

DA accept Mkhwebane’s explanation on late Ramaphosa report

The party have understood the public protector’s reason for the late release of the president’s Bosasa loan report

  • Eyaaz Matwadia
2 min read
The suspended public protector told him she would pleased if the probe into the scam delivered no adverse findings, Reginald Ndou tells inquiry.
BUSISIWE MKHWEBANE
Video

​Gordhan is not being harassed — Public Protector

Advocate Busisiwe Mkhwebane explains issuance of section 7 (9) notice to public enterprises minister in YouTube video

  • Kiri Rupiah
4 min read