When Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane starts testifying before Parliament's Section 194 Inquiry into her fitness for office on Wednesday, the biggest dragon she will have to slay is the mass of evidence calling her independence into question.
Mkhwebane left her position as an"analyst" at the State Security Agency to take on the role of Public Protector in October 2016.
The final report her predecessor, advocate Thuli Madonsela, completed was called State of Capture, which opened the lid of then-president Jacob Zuma and his friends the Guptas' Pandora's Box of state capture, which was finally laid bare in the commission flowing from the report.Get 14 days free to read all our investigative and in-depth journalism. Thereafter you will be billed R75 per month. You can cancel anytime and if you cancel within 14 days you won't be billed.
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