'Whoever thinks that the public protector is going to be removed when parliament is reconstituted is just daydreaming.'
Shivambu said the sixth parliament would need a two-thirds majority to oust Mkhwebane, but stressed that the public protector's sacking “is not going to happen”.
Mkhwebane came under heavy criticism when she released a report saying public enterprises minister Pravin Gordhan acted improperly when he approved an early retirement for former Sars deputy commissioner Ivan Pillay. Gordhan, who was finance minister at the time, then approved a request to keep Pillay on at Sars on a fixed-term contract.Gordhan has approached the high court in Pretoria to review and set aside the report, arguing that the timing of its release is politically motivated.
“We believe the report and the findings she made on Gordhan are correct,” he said, arguing that if any court endorsed what Gordhan did, it would be setting a bad precedent.
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