MPs grill Sharise Weiner and Siraj Desai in public protector interviews
THE two judges seeking appointment as the next public protector found the boot on the other foot on Thursday when they were grilled by MPs on a special parliamentary committee on their fitness for the office.Siraj Desai and Sharise Weiner accepted nomination as candidates to replace incumbent Public Protector Thuli Madonsela, when her term of office ends in October.WATCH LIVE: Public protector interviewsDesai, in particular, was grilled about a 2004 incident in Mumbai, India, where he was charged with raping a South African HIV/AIDS activist.Responding to DA MP Werner Horn, Desai said the allegation that he had changed his story on the rape charges was not true."I was not acquitted or convicted but the case was dismissed and the claim that I changed my version is not true. I never gave a version at all; the story came from the police in Mumbai," he said.DA MP Phumzile van Damme asked Desai if he could keep a cool head under pressure, because he had a history of spats with judicial c...
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