ALERT: Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane has laid criminal charges against Minister of State Security Dipuo Letsatsi-Duba.
JOHANNESBURG - Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane has laid criminal charges against Minister of State Security Dipuo Letsatsi-Duba, over what she sees as interference with the functioning of her office and contempt for her.
This follows Minister Letsatsi-Duba’s failure to avail to Adv. Mkhwebane a declassified document she requires in connection with an investigation into alleged violation of the Executive Members’ Ethics Act by former Minister of Finance and incumbent Minister of Public Enterprises, Pravin Gordhan. Section 11 of the Act provides that any person who without just cause refuses or fails to comply with a direction of request under section 7 referred to above or refuses to answer questions put to them under that section or gives answer which they know to be false shall be guilty of an offense. According to the act, any person convicted of such an offense shall be liable to a fine not exceeding R40000 or imprisonment for a period not exceeding 12 months or both.
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