PP IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY REFLECTION: Stalingrad defence: Little wiggle room as Mkhwebane, Mpofu and Malema play blank cards

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PP IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY REFLECTION: Stalingrad defence: Little wiggle room as Mkhwebane, Mpofu and Malema play blank cards
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The Section 194 inquiry into the Public Protector was held by a well-briefed committee and its no-nonsense chair as an almost permanently aggrieved Dali Mpofu, his client Busisiwe Mkwhebane and a choir of bullies tried to derail matters.

, has lived the recurring nightmare for eight years. He is one witness who could probably recite the 9,000 pages in his sleep.

African Christian Democratic Party MP Marie Sukers told Dyantyi she had been “extremely uncomfortable” with the EFF’s behaviour: “I humbly call on the chairperson to re-establish that boundary.” The Section 194 inquiry into the Public Protector’s fitness to hold office was always going to be a final, bloody frontier in the drawn-out battle that took place on several fronts during Jacob Zuma’s era of State Capture. It has cost the country dearly.

Malema — either between, during or after his press conference on the same day — cut in to insult ANC committee member Xola Nqola as “a politician wannabee” when Nqola suggested Mpofu get on with questioning witnesses instead of “rallying”.At one stage, attempting to convince the inquiry to return to the origin story and to widen the inquiry, Mpofu told a patchy story, from the Eastern Cape he said, about leaves, a bucket and some stones.

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