Newsletter| Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane has told police she has a leaked copy of the spy report that State Security Minister Dipuo Letsatsi-Duba refused to officially hand over to her – but has cautioned that hers could be fake
The continued dispute between the Public Protector and the minister over the classified spy report is evidenced in Mkhwebane’s affidavit, signed in Durban on March 12.Mkhwebane’s apparent hesitation regarding the legitimacy of her report could serve as grounds to shield her from prosecution against Letsatsi-Duba’s countercharge that the Public Protector was in illegal possession of the classified state document and refused to return it.
Letsatsi-Duba faces three charges, writes Mkhwebane: “interfering with the functioning of the office of the Public Protector; obstructing and/or frustrating the Public Protector from executing her constitutional, sanctioned and lawful activities; and being in contempt of the Public Protector”. In the police statement, Mkhwebane says she had been in possession of the leaked document by February 15 or earlier, after it was “anonymously dropped off” at the Public Protector’s office in Hatfield, Pretoria.
At the end of the meeting, the minister undertook to furnish her with a declassified report. But five days later, Mkhwebane writes, she was taken aback when Letsatsi-Duba wrote to her “expressing dissatisfaction about the access by myself to the report”.
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