JUSTICE MALALA: Cyril Ramaphosa's 'new dawn' will not happen with these Zuma hacks still in office
'The real outrage is that no action has yet been taken against Mkhwebane, two weeks after she admitted that the State Security Agency had a hand in the operational affairs of her office'
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So the swiftness of action that the Cyril Ramaphosa administration has displayed in business-related matters needs to translate to the institutions of accountability, of security and of state.
Abrahams is not rehabilitable. Mkhwebane has again and again showed that she understands her mandate clearly: to keep Zuma and his friends, from the Guptas to the Eskom looters, out of jail. How can people like these remain in office, in power, in this new dawn?
There is much to do for Cyril Ramaphosa. Unlike many who now say the man has already failed, I believe much has been achieved in his short tenure and with his very small margin of victory at the ANC conference in December.
Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane is embroiled in yet another scandal. This time she has appointed a new chief executive officer, a man who has still not been cleared of allegations of misconduct from his previous job at the land reform department. That’s not the real scandal, though. The real outrage is that no action has yet been taken against Mkhwebane, two weeks after she told the justice portfolio committee in parliament that the State Security Agency had a hand in the operational affairs of her office. What is the secret service doing in the public protector’s office?With our horrendous crime statistics, shouldn’t the spying agencies be concerned with investigating murderers, cash heist kingpins and other miscreants instead of snooping on people who are supposedly the people’s protectors? How can we expect any investigation at the NPA to hold politicians to account when her employees are being spied on 24/7? Ten weeks after the embarrassment that is Jacob Zuma cleared out of...
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