Busisiwe Mkhwebane: DA is using the Vrede report ‘as a ploy to oust me’
The party wants an inquiry into the Public Protector’s fitness to hold office
Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane has accused the DA of using an application to review the controversial Vrede Dairy Farm report as a ploy to get rid of her. DA chief whip John Steenhuisen last week made a presentation to Parliament’s portfolio committee on justice motivating why there should be an inquiry into Mkhwebane’s fitness to hold office. The committee has reserved its decision in order to give her a chance to respond. Mkhwebane denied her report on the Gupta-linked Estina dairy farm was a whitewash. In an answering affidavit filed in response to the DA’s review application in which it asks the court to declare that she acted unlawfully as well as to award costs against her in her personal capacity, she claimed she had not acted in bad faith or incompetently in dealing with the report. The DA application was "steeped in politics", she said. The DA had never supported her appointment and had been critical about her and her work from the beginning, "with a view to chipping a...
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