Suspended public protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane is looking forward to stating her case in parliament’s impeachment hearing.
“Definitely you will hear from me,” she said, adding that the court judgments against her, which the DA relied on when it tabled a motion for her impeachment, were not the truth.Busisiwe Mkhwebane, suspended public protector “They will hear from me and I am very excited about the fact that it’s outside the court process and litigation.
“I think you’ve heard the issue of court judgments and the DA relied mostly on that because they are the ones who brought the motion and now we are going to deal with facts and what truly transpired so that you, as the public, can hear directly from me because when you litigate you are not given that opportunity,” she told journalists after the first day of the impeachment inquiry on Monday.
It was unfortunate that she was being judged on less than 20 cases her office lost in court out of more than 60,000 matters it had dealt with since her appointment in October 2016. “I’m excited about this process ... We are not going to be dealing with technicalities because that’s what the court had found [on] in most cases. They didn’t deal with the factual issues.”
When it was her turn to speak, the public would hear “what really happened” with the Bankorp-CIEX, Vrede dairy farm and the Financial Services Board investigations.In his opening statement, her legal representative advocate Dali Mpofu accused parliament and President Cyril Ramaphosa of “unfairness” and “sabotaging” Mkhwebane in fighting the impeachment and her court cases.
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