Public Protector BusisiweMkhwebane told the Section 194 Inquiry that she was “shocked” when President CyrilRamaphosa suspended her last June. Parliament Impeachment DaliMpofu Read more below 👇
Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane speaks to Advocate Dali Mpofu over a tea break during the parliamentary inquiry into her fitness to hold office in Parliament on 25 August 2022. Picture: Gallo Images / Daily Maverick /Leila Dougan
Mkhwebane was suspended by President Cyril Ramaphosa on 9 June 2022, a day after the Public Protector’s office confirmed its investigation into theWhile the Public Protector, on 9 September, successfully challenged her suspension in the Western Cape High Court, she failed to halt the inquiry’s proceedings.
The Public Protector told the Section 194 Committee that her reasons sent to Ramaphosa on why she should not be suspended “fell on death ears” after she wrote to the president asking him to resolve the issue amicably without going to court. The Public Protector said she and her legal team were “very shocked” by her suspension because the president’s lawyers had promised to give her a “heads up” about the move.Earlier, Mkhwebane laid the blame on the DA and the ANC for initiating the impeachment inquiry process, saying it was “a politically motivated witch-hunt masquerading as a bona fide inquiry under the auspices of section 194 of the Constitution”.
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