The child disappeared from near her Elsies River home in February 2020 and more than a week later, police arrested the accused in the Eastern Cape. He led police to her body in a storm water pipe, along the N1 highway, near Worcester.

After considering a legal opinion on Tuesday, most parties on the committee agreed that the Public Protector’s request lacked relevance.

Market research company Ipsos said if a national election were held right now, the ANC would garner less than half of the vote.

She’s cited political differences as the reason for leaving after nearly 20 years of service.

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.