Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane has revealed that she has paid a Constitutional Court personal costs order thanks to R260,000 raised by members of the public.
Mkhwebane revealed this during a presentation to parliament’s justice and correctional services portfolio committee on Saturday.Constitutional Court upheld a judgment that Mkhwebane should personally pay costs for the case involving the SA Reserve Bank.
“The personal costs order has been paid up and again that shows the issue of the public paying for my costs because I have been doing the public work, to defend the public,” said Mkhwebane Mkhwebane thanked those who contributed to the amount but she said she was not involved in the collection of the money.
“I only informed the people who were collecting the money that ‘this is the bill I have received’, and they paid the R260,000 which has been owed,” said Mkhwebane. The payment came after an organisation called Democracy in Action started crowdfunding to pay Mkhwebane’s bill.
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