Days after the Public Protector's office said it had made an extra R4 million available for Busisiwe Mkhwebane's impeachment inquiry defence, she launched an urgent Constitutional Court bid for untrammelled state funding of her lawyers. | karynmaughan
According to the suspended Mkhwebane, the R4 million cap placed on her continued legal representation by the Public Protector was"a non-starter".
She said it"represents the surest way to guarantee that the present impasse [over funding] will replay and repeat itself come the projected and totally improbable June 2023 end-date of the enquiry or the depletion of the capped funds".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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