Busisiwe Mkhwebane discussed Bank’s ‘vulnerabilities’ with State Security Agency
Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane’s office battled to explain itself on Tuesday after confidential notes of her meetings with the Presidency and the State Security Agency (SSA) came before court. Asked to explain the contents of the notes, which included a discussion of the Reserve Bank’s vulnerabilities with the SSA, Mkhwebane’s spokesperson, Cleopatra Mosana, said: "That suggestion is incorrect and not factual, but just an exaggeration." Pushed to clarify, Mosana said Business Day’s questions were irrelevant and misguided. SSA spokesman Brian Dube referred questions back to the public protector. But the notes, attached to an affidavit signed by the Bank’s general counsel, Johannes de Jager, detailing new grounds for reviewing the Bankorp report, show that in a May 3 meeting, the public protector and the SSA apparently discussed why the agency had not pursued the Ciex recommendations drafted by British spy Michael Oatley. The SSA explained it was "early in democracy" at the time ...
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