Busisiwe Mkhwebane has lost yet another court case – this time the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria invalidated her final report on Minister Pravin Gordhan. The ruling comes a day after the Constitutional Court dismissed suspended Mkhwebane’s application ...
Suspended Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane lost another court battle today, adding to her tally of legal defeats. The Gauteng High Court in Pretoria has invalidated her final report on Minister Pravin Gordhan, relating to her investigation into a SARS IT contract.in 2006 by then SARS Commissioner Pravin Gordhan.
She also ordered that there be no extension of the contract upon request by the accounting officer approved by the National Treasury beyond 31 December 2022. In the same report, the Auditor General asked to take note of the findings relating to the maladministration and “improper conduct identified in this investigation made against SARS; and within its own discretion, to consider the findings and intended remedial action
in this investigation and consider taking any action deemed appropriate under the circumstances in terms of any applicable legislation”.Mkhwebane was on her own in the case as the Office of the Public Protector South Africa did not attempt to defend her report. The court ordered that all findings and remedial actions were unlawful, invalid and set aside. The PP was ordered to pay the costs of the applicant, including the costs of two counsels.
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