Shivambu gave Mkhwebane top secret report on Sars unit - Ponatshego Mogaladi, former manager of investigations at the public protector, told parliament the Economic Freedom Fighters leader sent her the report in 2018
Despite this, Mkhwebane echoed Sikhakhane’s findings in her report, which wasin December 2020. The court found that she “allowed her important office to be used to try and resuscitate a long-dead fake news propaganda fiction”.
Yet she ordered that the state security minister should, within 90 days, implement the office of the inspector-general of intelligence report in full, and within 30 days ensure that all equipment used by the Sars unit be placed in custody of the State Security Agency within 30 days. She also directed the minister to deliver a declassified copy of the report to her office within 14 days.
“The public protector now claims that she subsequently received the OIGI report from an anonymous source who left it at her offices. This turn of events is disturbing to say the least and it is difficult to label the public protector’s conduct in this regard as anything else but dishonest,” the court said.
Mogaladi confirmed that in 2019, then minister of state security Ayanda Dlodlo sent a letter to the public protector expressing concern that it had been in possession of a secret document.
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