Western Cape Premier Helen Zille has obtained an urgent interdict to prevent President Cyril Ramaphosa acting on a public protector finding that she secured an “unfair advantage” for her son to use electronic tablets owned by the provincial government. The Pretoria High Court order temporarily prevents Ramaphosa, the Western Cape legislature speaker and the National Council of Provinces (NCOP) chair acting on Busisiwe Mkhwebane’s finding that Zille gave her mathematics teacher son an “unfair advantage” when she facilitated access to the tablets for him to give free extra lessons to disadvantaged students. They did not oppose Zille’s action. The court granted Zille’s application, pending resolution of her legal challenge to the procedural fairness, legality and rationality of Mkhwebane’s finding. The public protector found that Zille violated the constitution, the Public Protector Act and the Executive Ethics Code by helping her son, Paul Maree, borrow tablets from the Western Cape e...

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