The Western Cape High Court has ruled that President Ramaphosa's decision to suspend Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane was invalid. ConCourt must confirm the ruling. Read more👇
The suspension came shortly after Mkhwebane sent Ramaphosa questions about the robbery at his Phala Phala farm.Mkhwebane then wrote a letter to Ramaphosa demanding to be reinstated. She argued that her suspension was illegal and invalid.
“Your decision to suspend me, as you put it, ‘pending the finalisation of the process taking place in the National Assembly’ is decidedly unlawful and invalid in that, to your knowledge, your power to do so in terms of section 194 is not lawfully triggered by the taking place of the process but only arises ‘at any time after the start of the proceedings of a committee of the National Assembly for the removal of that person’.
“Alternatively, I hereby squarely challenge you to pronounce when and on what occasion you may allege that the proceedings envisaged in the section had indeed started. Your conduct is ultra vires and illegal,” she said. Mkhwebane accused Ramaphosa of suspending her shortly after her office had opened an investigation into the president’s office.
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