Mkhwebane still to take position on ‘state capture’ report
New Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane says she has not taken a position in the application by President Jacob Zuma and Co-operative Governance Minister Des van Rooyen to interdict the release of a report on "state capture". The office of the Public Protector and all other parties in the case are expected to file answering affidavits in the applications filed by Zuma and Van Rooyen. Those applications‚ together with applications by a number of opposition parties who seek to intervene in the matter‚ will be heard by the high court in Pretoria on November 1. Mkhwebane was briefing the media, for the first time since she took office on October 15‚ on this and on the strategic direction her office will take for the next seven years. Mkhwebane found herself in the midst of litigation involving Zuma following a legal challenge against the release of the state capture report. Former Public Protector Thuli Madonsela had planned to release the report last Friday‚ on the last day of her seve...
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