A cryptic WhatsApp message about ‘playing chess’ with President Cyril Ramaphosa was among the things that ‘worried’ Basani Baloyi about suspended Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane.
A former chief operating officer at the Office of the Public Protector , Basani Baloyi, has told the Section 194 inquiry into the fitness of Busisiwe Mkhwebane to hold office that Mkhwebane’s comment about “playing chess” with regard to an investigation into President Cyril Ramaphosa had “worried her”.
Baloyi told the committee that her impression after receiving the message was that “a political game was being played”. “To be told to shred it was the worst thing. In that office, we never shredded most of the reports. For it to be shred was an anomaly,” Baloyi told the committee. With regard to an investigation into Independent Police Investigative Directorate head Robert McBride and others involving the appointment of a deputy director, Baloyi said McBride had been the target.
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