Protector may flip flop again, judge hints in ruling
Judge Motsamai Makume puts brakes on the DA’s application for a state-capture probe pending review
It had yet to be seen if the public protector would change her stance on the constitutional powers vested in the president, as happened in her concession that only Parliament has the power to amend the Reserve Bank’s mandate, Judge Motsamai Makume said on Friday on a possible state-capture inquiry. Makume ordered that the DA’s application for a probe to be set up be put on hold, pending the outcome of President Jacob Zuma’s review of the remedial action in the public protector’s state-capture report. The president has been granted a postponement in implementing the remedial action. The DA and the public protector both opposed the president’s application. Makume referred to the judgment in the matter between the Reserve Bank and the public protector in which it was indicated that the public protector initially opposed the application by the Bank challenging the remedial action in which Busisiwe Mkhwebane ordered Parliament to change the Reserve Bank’s mandate. Mkhwebane later agreed ...
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