Witness: Public Protector's office become toxic after Mkhwebane took charge
Former investigator Nditsheni Raedani said staff who worked closely with former Public Protector Thuli Madonsela, felt particularly targeted.
Former investigator Nditsheni Raedani said staff who worked closely with former Public Protector Thuli Madonsela, felt particularly targeted.
This emerged during testimony in her impeachment inquiry on Thursday night, when a witness said that Busisiwe Mkhwebane took the call from the former ANN7 channel boss in his presence.
Former investigator in the Office of the Public Protector, Nditheni Raedani told Parliament that he had cautioned Mkhwebane against removing parts of the report related to financial misconduct by politicians.
This was after Parliament requested the Public Protector’s office to investigate the role of politicians in the Vrede Dairy farm project.
This has been the testimony of the lead investigator Livhuwani Tshiwalule testifying before Busisiwe Mkhwebane’s impeachment hearing.
Her lawyer wants Parliament’s Section 194 committee to subpoena him, after Ramaphosa declined an invite to testify, saying it would be inappropriate.
Livhuwani Tshiwalule has told Parliament's impeachment inquiry that he had no idea where the changes made by Busisiwe Mkhwebane came from.
This week, the Section 194 committee plans to hear from two former investigators in her office.
The High Court in Pretoria has set aside portions of a third report, in which former SARS deputy commissioner Ivan Pillay is implicated.
Parliament adopted rules to guide the process for the removal of a president back in 2018, following a Constitutional Court judgment related to the Nkandla saga. The ATM is now the first party to test this process.
But Ramaphosa said men are the problem to ridding society of gender-based violence.
Parliament has heard that a rogue investigative unit did exist within the South African Revenue Services (Sars) and former deputy commissioner Ivan Pillay benefited fraudulently from its pension fund.
Several MPs were physically removed at the request of the Speaker by Parliament’s protection services on two successive days during the Presidency budget vote debate in June.
Her lawyer Dali Mpofu has been questioning their validity before Parliament’s impeachment inquiry.
Political parties will have to nominate eminent South Africans to consider evidence in justification for an impeachment inquiry.
Former South African Revenue Service (Sars) deputy commissioner Ivan Pillay is testifying from abroad on Friday, in Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane’s impeachment inquiry being held at Parliament.
On Thursday, a witness testified in Busisiwe Mkhwebane's impeachment inquiry, stating that Arthur Fraser had reached out to him about leakages and other security issues, while he was the state security head.
Baldwin Neshunzhi testified before Parliament's impeachment inquiry, that the former State Security Agency boss Arthur Fraser called him to discuss Busisiwe Mkhwebane's security concerns.