A squirrel’s leap from the National Assembly and her Section 194 impeachment inquiry, Busisiwe Mkhwebane and her legal representative, Dali Mpofu, on Monday headed for the trenches of the Western Cape High Court, where Mpofu argued his client still ...
A further bid by the suspended Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane to flush out information on the investigation she initiated into President Cyril Ramaphosa’s “cash in the couch” nosedived on Monday when the assistant state attorney, Mark Owen, informed the Western Cape High Court that the President’s replies to 31 questions would not be made public.
She has cited the President’s conflict of interest due to investigations by the Office of the Public Protector into the Phala Phala forex theft and an alleged “cover-up”, as well as other matters relating to Ramaphosa. On Monday, Owen informed the court that Ramaphosa’s private attorneys who are representing him in the Phala Phala matter had been in contact with the acting Public Protector.
Gcaleka said that while the Office of the Public Protector was prepared to pay for Mkhwebane’s defence at her Section 194 inquiry, it was not prepared to pay for her attempt to stop it. Mkhwebane’s legal representatives should have obtained a power of attorney from the acting Public Protector before filing an amended notice of motion in the matter, said Gcaleka.
“There are two parties theoretically: one is the Public Protector of South Africa, the applicant, and that party is inseparable from advocate Mkhwebane,” he stated emphatically.
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