It’s still early in the deliberations of the parliamentary ad hoc committee into the fitness of suspended public protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane to hold office, but so far things are not going her way.

On Friday the multiparty ad hoc committee considered Mkhwebane’s report on the lifeboat of R1.125bn which the Reserve Bank gave Absa after its takeover of Bankorp. Mkhwebane recommended in her final report that Absa be required to repay the money and that the constitution be amended to change the mandate of the Reserve Bank to include the promotion of economic development...

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