Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane has set the record straight on a Portfolio Committee on Justice and Correctional Services decision to summon her to appear before it in connection with her work The committee said at the weekend that it had decided to urgently call Mkhwebane to appear before it to[…]
Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane conspired with the Presidency to have the mandate of the Reserve Bank changed, the bank stated in a new affidavit filed on Monday. SARB spokesperson Jabulani Sikhakhane confirmed that SARB filed the new affidavit on Monday, in which the bank indicates that Mkhwebane had met with[…]
Parliament said it would take Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane’s findings into Absa bank’s misappropriation of public funds, on review. Mkhwebane recommended that Absa pay over a billion rand in interest from a loan to its predecessor, Bankorp, for an apartheid-era bailout. In a statement issed on Thursday, Parliament specified that[…]
Absa says Advocate Busisiwe Mkhwebane’s report is riddled with misconceptions and inaccuracies. The bank is taking it back to the High Court for review, saying her remedial action should be set aside. Officials say the report makes irrational and unreasonable legal conclusions, which have damaged the bank’s reputation. Mkhwebane recommended[…]
The Reserve Bank is set to challenge the public protector’s recommendation that its mandate be adjusted. The bank said in a statement on Tuesday that the ordered remedial action directing parliament to effect a constitutional amendment to the Reserve Bank’s powers had had an immediate and negative impact on the[…]
Former Public Protector Thuli Madonsela on Thursday denied that her office operated on money from foreign donors and that it had used consultants. “It’s a lie that we used consultants. It’s a blatant lie that we used USAID money, ever,” Madonsela told Johannesburg based-radio station Power FM. Madonsela’s successor Busisiwe Mkhwebane told[…]
Government’s choice of the next public protector should be respected, outgoing Public Protector Thuli Madonsela said on Wednesday. “Government has made the choice that government considers the best in terms of having a fourth public protector. It’s not for me or my predecessors to judge whether it’s good or bad,”[…]
The National Assembly will on Wednesday decide whether to approve the recommendation of State Security Agency analyst Busisiwe Mkhwebane to become the new Public Protector. The report of the Adhoc Committee on a new Public Protector will be presented to the House for final consideration. Almost all political parties say[…]
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