Public protector’s office needs R1.2bn to function, Busisiwe Mkhwebane says
Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane begged Parliament to provide her office with R1.2bn in funding on Thursday and also revealed she would be filing an answering affidavit in the State of Capture case. Mkhwebane, who was briefing MPs in the justice committee, ruled out donor funding. She said the office’s current allocation of R263.3m was "a drop in the ocean" and it needed R1.2bn to carry out its mandate. Her predecessor, Thuli Madonsela, had also bemoaned the lack of adequate funding and cited this as a stumbling block to wrapping up the State of Capture report on time. "I know that it is a scary thought, but we will need atleast R1bn just to stay afloat," Mkhwebane told MPs. Chief financial officer Kennedy Kaposa said the R1bn was a conservative amount, compared with the office of the public protector’s needs. African Christian Democratic Party MP and committee Steve Swart was shocked at how much the office was allocated — weighed against the mounting legal fees, which run into t...
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