MPs dismiss Mkhwebane’s call to subpoena Ramaphosa - The president’s evidence is not necessary to determine whether she is guilty of misconduct, the section 194 committee concludes
prevented Ramaphosa from having the power to suspend her, given that he was the subject of a number of investigations by her office.
He also advised that the matter of her suspension was before the courts and the committee could not reconsider other legal processes on which the courts had pronounced with finality. His letter narrowed the proposed scope of questioning to the “CR17 or Bosasa case which resulted in the courts making certain remarks about the public protector”.
The charges of misconduct and incompetence in the motion for her removal are in part informed by the evidence in the court review of her report on the CR17 funds. It said the evidence of the president on the CR funding was part of the court record in the legal review of Mkhwebane’s report and was readily available. Moreover, Ramaphosa was not involved in the drafting of the report and it is that process that forms part of the committee’s inquiry.
The Good Party’s Brett Herron suggested that Mkhwebane should be allowed to submit further motivation as to why the president’s testimony may be necessary. He said the committee should meet a high threshold of fairness, given that it could take the severe step of recommending her removal.
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