If her first week in the office is any indication, SA is in for a very long seven years. Busisiwe Mkhwebane, the public protector, walked in on her first day as the replacement for Thuli Madonsela, and immediately flicked the television channel to the Gupta-owned ANN7, from the independent eNCA. Mkhwebane then pronounced that there will be no more "sensational titles" for her reports; that she hates the term "state capture" and that the entire office has low morale. After that, she did away with consultants before moving Madonsela’s former chief-of-staff into a new, nonexistent position. Then she dropped two bombshells — first, she will not oppose President Jacob Zuma’s interdict on the "state capture" report, and second, there would be "no more donor funding" for her office. Mkhwebane went on to highlight "the dangers" of donor funding, which she said would leave it vulnerable to foreign influence (read: the hidden hand of the CIA and the West’s "regime change agenda"). Problem is,...
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