Public protector hits back at Reserve Bank conspiracy allegations
Busisiwe Mkhwebane denies she conspired with the Presidency and State Security Agency against the Reserve Bank
Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane has dismissed parts of the Reserve Bank’s new affidavit against her office, and has described the media reports that followed as “incorrect”’. She denied conspiring with the Presidency and State Security Agency‚ saying her office remains independent. In a two-page statement on Thursday — four days after the Bank filed a supplementary affidavit disclosing previously secret notes of meetings between Mkhwebane and the Presidency, along with the State Security Agency (SSA) — spokesperson Cleopatra Mosana said both meetings were above board. Mosana denied the Bank’s “allegations” that it was not given an opportunity to comment on the provisional report of the the Ciex investigation, which included the Reserve Bank’s alleged failure to recover a lifeboat to Bankorp during apartheid. The Bank’s general counsel, Johannes de Jager, in his supplementary affidavit on Monday, took issue with the meeting with the Presidency after the Bank had submitted its res...
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