THERE is a deep, sharp pain in the pit of my stomach. I feel as if I have been hit right in the solar plexus, very hard, by a heavyweight boxer. When the DA first raised concern about Busisiwe Mkhwebane in parliament and refused to vote for her appointment as public protector, many of us chose to hold our tongue and give her a chance. When DA MP Glynnis Breytenbach alleged that Mkhwebane worked as a spy while an immigration officer at the South African embassy in China, many of us were unsettled — but still felt that, just as Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng was pilloried and vilified before he went into his new role, Mkhwebane, too, would rise to the challenge and the role. But if Mkhwebane‘s first week in office is anything to go by then we are in deep, deep trouble. I am an optimist and would like to believe that Mkhwebane‘s first week does not in any way define the next seven years of her tenure. But I am a realist, too, and nothing in what she has said and done in the past week ra...
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