Advocate Busisiwe Mkhwebane said she laid a charge against state security minister Dipuo Letsatsi-Duba over what she deemed to be “interference with the functioning of her office'.
In a statement, Mkhwebane said Letsatsi-Duba had failed to make available the classified document which she required in relation to “alleged violation of the Executive Members’ Ethics Act by former minister of finance and incumbent minister of public enterprises, Pravin Gordhan”.
“The public protector has the power to direct any person to submit an affidavit or appear before her to give evidence or produce any document, which has a bearing on a matter under investigation. She may also examine the person,” said Mkhwebane. She further stated that, according to the Public Protector Act, “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 offence.”
“It is my respectful view that the minister’s failure to avail the declassified report as subpoenaed amounts to contempt of the public protector and interference with the functioning of my office, and is therefore an offence,” added Mkhwebane.
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