Accountability Now has laid charges of perjury and defeating the ends of justice against public protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane, as well as asked her office to investigate her for maladministration. 

This follows the NGO’s request to the Legal Practice Council (LPC) more than three weeks ago to consider having her struck from the roll of advocates based on a judgment by the Constitutional Court in which a high court judgment upheld an order for her to pay costs out of her own pocket as a result of acting in bad faith...

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