Mpofu desperately seeks to discredit testimony against Mkhwebane - The senior counsel suggested to MPs that everything a former employee of the public protector’s office said was a lie
Mpofu was challenging Kekana’s evidence to parliament’s section 194 inquiry weighing whether to recommend Mkhwebane be impeached. Kekana said she had been spoon-fed proposals by intelligence officials to change the mandate of the South African Reserve Bank .and colleagues James Ramabulana and Maiendra Moodley suggested that the conversation had not, as he maintained, focused on the vulnerability of the Sarb in the apartheid era, but rather in the present.
In 2018, the Pretoria high court set aside the report, following review applications by both Reserve Bank and Absa, and found that Mkhwebane had exceeded her powers. on her part, and she is facing perjury charges for putting forth what the constitutional court has termed “a number of falsehoods” during the review litigation.
Kekana took notes of what transpired in the meeting but was soon told by Mkhwebane to stop. It was to these cryptic notes that Mpofu returned to suggest that because verbs were in the present tense, his client was somehow in the clear. He concluded his cross-examination by telling the committee he would argue that nothing Kekana had said could be deemed credible.
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