Problematic staff morale‚ no proper handover‚ funding problems and a family matter to resolve: This is new Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane’s take on what she is inheriting from her popular predecessor Thuli Madonsela. During her maiden speech to Parliament’s portfolio committee on justice on Wednesday‚ she promised to do things her way. She promised to do away with donor funding‚ consultants and even Madonsela’s catchy report-naming conventions — which included Secure in Comfort for Nkandla and Derailed for her probe into irregularities at South Africa’s state railway business. She also said her focus would be on improving staff morale‚ which she said was low. Mkhwebane said she understood that only one senior investigator from her office had worked on the state capture report‚ and that PricewaterhouseCoopers and some university academics had been used as consultants. She warned MPs that the audit for her office was unlikely to be a clean one because initial briefings had reveal...
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