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FILE: Advocate Busisiwe Mkhwebane delivering her findings against President Cyril Ramaphosa. Picture: EWN

Cr17 funds

8 legal challenges that overturned Mkhwebane’s reports and findings

By Eyewitness News

Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane has had numerous bruising court defeats that overturned several of her reports and recommendations, which has led to...

  • FILE: Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane. Picture: @PublicProtector/Twitter.

    Ramaphosa's lawyers tell ConCourt that PP ignored the facts in her CR17 report

    The details were shared at the Constitutional Court on Thursday where Advocate Busisiwe Mkhwebane applied for urgent leave to appeal a Pretoria High Court decision which set aside her report on the unlawfulness of Ramaphosa's CR17 campaign fundraising.

    535 days ago
  • Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane at the Constitutional Court in Johannesburg on 22 July 2019. Picture: Sethembiso Zulu/Eyewitness News

    PP wanted to find Ramaphosa liable for wrongdoing at any cost, lawyers argue

    This was during their submissions on Thursday at the Constitutional Court as the matter over the CR17 campaign fundraising continues.

    536 days ago
  • Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane at the Constitutional Court in Johannesburg on 22 July 2019. Picture: Sethembiso Zulu/EWN

    An uphill battle: Mkhwebane tries to defend appeal on CR17 report judgment

    The justices of the apex court have questioned the rationality of Busisiwe Mkhwebane’s report, which among others found that Ramaphosa deliberately misled Parliament when he initially denied knowledge of a donation from Bosasa.

    536 days ago
  • LIVE BLOG: Ramaphosa says we need to consistently confront racism

    President Cyril Ramaphosa faces questions in Parliament on Thursday as the country continues to battle COVID-19 corruption.

    550 days ago
  • FILE: President Cyril Ramaphosa visits Polokwane for a door-to-door election campaign for the ruling party. Picture: Abigail Javier/EWN

    Ramaphosa to appear before ANC's integrity commission, Duarte confirms

    In an interview with eNCA on Sunday, ANC deputy secretary-general Jessie Duarte did not say when the president would appear before the commission.

    624 days ago
  • FILE: Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane. Picture: Abigail Javier/EWN

    Public Protector Mkhwebane suspends senior official over calls for her to resign

    Sphelo Samuel has been served with a notice of suspension, a day after he called on Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane to resign.

    796 days ago
  • Public Protector Advocate Busisiwe Mkhwebane. Picture: @PublicProtector/Twitter

    Scathing court ruling against Mkhwebane 'could bolster' case for her removal

    The High Court in Pretoria set aside Mkhwebane’s findings that President Cyril Ramaphosa deliberately misled Parliament about a Bosasa donation to his CR17 campaign.

    796 days ago
  • Members of the opposition Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) party object as South African President Cyril Ramaphosa attempts to deliver his State of the Nation address at Parliament in Cape Town on 13 February 2020. Picture: AFP

    EFF to head to ConCourt to appeal CR17 ruling against Mkhwebane

    The Pretoria High Court reviewed and set aside the findings in the Public Protector's Bosasa report, describing them as fatally flawed.

    797 days ago
  • FILE: Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane. Picture: @PublicProtector/Twitter.

    Presidency hails CR17 ruling, says Public Protector's office failing miserably

    In a scathing judgment, the court reviewed and set aside the findings in the Public Protector’s Bosasa report, describing them as fatally flawed.

    797 days ago
  • FILE: Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane. Picture: Abigail Javier/EWN

    Mkhwebane had no jurisdiction to probe CR17 fundraising - court

    This emerged during the judgment of President Cyril Ramaphosa’s now successful bid to review and set aside the Public Protector’s findings against him.

    797 days ago
  • Court: Ramaphosa didn’t intentionally mislead Parliament on CR17 funding

    The High Court in Pretoria has found President Cyril Ramaphosa did not intentionally mislead Parliament about a R500,000 Bosasa payment as found by Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane.

    797 days ago
  • EFF leader Julius Malema addresses the Cape Town Press Club on 14 February 2020. Picture: @EFFSouthAfrica/Twitter

    Malema: There is no Constitution for Ramaphosa and a Constitution for Zuma

    EFF leader Julius Malema has questioned why NGOs and the media were yet to make the president reveal who funded his CR17 election campaign.

    822 days ago
  • Political parties at the IEC code of conduct ceremony in Midrand. Picture: Abigail Javier/EWN

    National Assembly approves political party funding bill

    The amendment follows court action pursued by lobby group My Vote Counts that ended with the Constitutional Court finding the act didn't cover the disclosure of private political funding.

    922 days ago
  • FILE: South Africa's president Cyril Ramaphosa gestures as he delivers a speech after being elected by the Members of Parliament, during his swearing-in ceremony at the Parliament in Cape Town on 15 February 2018. Picture: AFP

    Ramaphosa: CR17 campaign funding was legitimate and above board

    The president faced a barrage of opposition questions during his first oral reply session of the sixth Parliament on Thursday, centred on the so-called CR17 campaign and donations to his party by corruption-accused company Bosasa, now known as African Global Operations.

    997 days ago
  • FILE: President Cyril Ramaphosa in Parliament. Picture: @PresidencyZA/Twitter

    WATCH LIVE: No commission required on Bosasa corruption, says Ramaphosa

    President Cyril Ramaphosa's first question and answer session of the sixth Parliament is under way.

    998 days ago
  • President Cyril Ramaphosa delivers the State of the Nation Address (Sona) in a joint sitting of Parliament on 20 June 2019. Picture: GCIS

    Ramaphosa to face grilling on CR17 donations, Bosasa & jobs in Parly Q&A

    It will be President Cyril Ramaphosa’s first question and answer session of the sixth Parliament and it could get fiery.

    998 days ago
  • Former EFF Member of Parliament Tebogo Mokwele. Picture: @ntlhapa/Twitter

    Former EFF MP Mokwele not surprised by CR17 donation

    Tebogo Mokwele and her colleague Nkagisang Mokgosi resigned from Parliament after it emerged that they accepted R80,000 each from Ramaphosa's CR17 campaign.

    999 days ago
  • Minister of Small Business Development Khumbudzo Ntshavheni. Picture: Xanderleigh Dookey/EWN

    Ntshavheni: I'm not the only one who received money from CR17 campaign

    Small Business Development Minister Khumbudzo Ntshavheni has denied claims that she used funds raised for the campaign for personal gain by building a 'mansion' in Thohoyandou.

    1000 days ago
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