Mkhwebane impeachment: Mpofu questions expertise of expert testifying in Public Protector impeachment inquiry
Constitutional expert Hassen Ebrahim was on Tuesday the first witness to testify before Parliament’s committee established in terms of 194 of the Constitution about the powers of the Public Protector’s office, processes to follow in removing the Public Protector and what constitutes a fit and proper Public Protector.
“So, we need to just establish what you are an expert on so that we know how you may be of assistance to the committee. Correct?” Mpofu asked:Ebrahim responded: “I think it’s a fairly difficult question.” “Now you have made some statements, which are based effectively, what I will then call your view or your interpretation since you’re not an expert, like everyone else in the street, your view of the Constitution some of which I’m going to deal with. But, I just wanted to know at what level I must deal with them whether with an expert or just like a chit-chat that we might have in the passage.
“The Public Protector may only be removed from office if the committee finds that she has committed misconduct or is incapacitated or incompetent and following the committee’s finding, the National Assembly resolves that she must be removed. Mkhwebane is fighting her suspension and the impeachment in court. She has alleged that Ramaphosa suspended her because she asked questions about what has come to be known as the #Farmgate, where large sums of dollars were allegedly stolen at the president’s Phala-Phala farm.
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