Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane to turn to Supreme Court to avoid R1m costs order
Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane has not given up her fight to overturn a R1m costs order arising from the Absa-Bankorp case.She had sought leave to appeal the high court order but the High Court in Pretoria dismissed her application on Wednesday, saying there was "no reasonable prospect that another court will come to a different conclusion".Mkhwebane would now approach the Supreme Court of Appeal, her office said on Thursday."The public protector intends petitioning the Supreme Court of Appeal as she believes it could arrive at a different conclusion," spokesman Oupa Segwale said.She had applied for leave to appeal against the section of the judgment, handed down in February, that ordered her to pay part of the Reserve Bank’s costs in her personal capacity.She was not challenging the court’s decision to set aside her report and its remedial action, but just the adverse findings against her.In her arguments to the high court, Mkhwebane said the court had erred when it ordered th...
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