UniteBehind wants the report set aside and for a cost order to be made against the public protector
Public protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane. Picture: ESA ALEXANDER
The UniteBehind coalition, which is made up of about 20 organisations including Right2Know, Section 27, the Treatment Action Campaign and Sonke Gender Justice, last week submitted its review application on Mkhwebane’s Prasa report, which dealt with issues deferred from her predecessor Thuli Madonsela’s 2015 report titled Derailed.
The deferred complaints centred on allegations of financial mismanagement, procurement irregularities, improper expenditure amounting to billions of rand of public funds, and abuse of office by Montana and former members of the Prasa board, including Buthelezi. The coalition says Mkhwebane did almost nothing to further the investigation and that she did not obtain any new piece of evidence.
It said eight of 11 deferred issues were addressed, albeit superficially, adding that various subsequent reports by the Treasury and Prasa were ignored.
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