BUSISIWE Mkhwebane is not going down without a fight.
The suspended Public Protector has bluntly dismissed Parliament’s Committee for the Section 194 Inquiry draft report recommendation that she be dismissed and is heading to court to have the process stopped.
Last Friday, the committee recommended that Mkhwebane should be removed from office, but she feels the inquiry ignored crucial facts and swept others under the carpet.
Mkhwebane also said the draft report was discussed and adopted at a time when the committee was fully aware that her attorneys had withdrawn due to their ill-treatment at the hands of the chairman, ANC MP Qubudile Dyantyi, and the committee.
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Now Mkhwebane has vowed to go to court to stop the report from being handed over to the National Assembly.
“I will have to exercise my right through the courts because people are just proceeding as if there’s nothing wrong,” she said.
The inquiry on Mkhwebane’s fitness to be the Public Protector was initiated by the Democratic Alliance (DA) in parliament in 2020.
In 2021, the National Assembly voted to establish a committee to probe her fitness to hold office.
This led to President Cyril Ramaphosa placing Mkhwebane on suspension.
