PUBLIC protector Thuli Madonsela has appealed to her detractors to "stop childish games" and let her do her work.Speaking in Pretoria on Tuesday‚ she said there were a lot of unfounded attacks on her when there was an investigation people did not like. The "schizophrenia" taking place was designed to distract her and her team from doing their work."For goodness sake, people‚ calm down. Let us not be in childish games‚" she pleaded.Madonsela said she and her team could not be distracted as they were employed to do their jobs.She was responding to the recent barrage of attacks on her by ANC Youth League president Collen Maine and claims that she was a CIA spy and stooge of white monopoly capital.The spy claims were made without any proof a year ago by deputy minister of defence and MK Veterans chairman Kebby Maphatsoe.The youth league has said Madonsela’s "narrow" state-capture investigation was proof of her bias and that the state was under attack from "imperial forces".Madonsela sai...
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