Parliamentary inquiry into Public protector’s fitness to hold office resumes
Public protector Busiswe Mkhwebane says she was suspended because she investigated the powerful, including President Cyril Ramaphosa and the theft at his farm.Mkhwebane was testifying before the section 194 parliamentary inquiry into her fitness to hold office, which resumed on Tuesday. Mkhwebane said she was obliged to investigate members of the executive accused of violating the Executive Members Ethics Act , which happened in the case of donations to the CR17 campaign by Bosasa.
why the executive is at the core of my challenges as public protector. My predecessor faced the similar issue but it was better with her because she never reached a stage where she is sitting here and subjected to impeachment,” Mkhwebane said.Mkhwebane said this was because the office investigated the most powerful, the “owners of the media industry and capital”.“Unfortunately with me, I am taken to court, the CR17 where the facts are wrong and the judgment is out there.
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