In a first for South Africa, the president invited members of the public to nominate their preferred candidates for the critical post.
Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane is the target of a parliamentary impeachment process and just last month the Judicial Service Commission voted for Western Cape Judge President John Hlophe to face impeachment proceedings.
Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane made the comments while briefing the media on her investigations into public healthcare facilities in a number of provinces.
Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane and her deputy, Kholeka Gcaleka, on Friday, briefed the media on the outcomes of investigations into the state of public healthcare facilities in Limpopo, Mpumalanga and KwaZulu-Natal.
Parliament has decided to appeal directly to the Constitutional Court two findings of the Western Cape High Court's judgement on the constitutional validity of the new National Assembly rules governing the process to impeach Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane.
Last month, the Western Cape High Court found that certain parliamentary rules used to impeach Mkhwebane were unconstitutional.
The committee tasked with the inquiry met on Wednesday to be briefed by parliamentary legal services on the process.
The court found that Parliament failed to carry out its constitutional obligation to pass legislation giving effect to the removal of the Public Protector, the Auditor-General and members of commissions established.
In a statement released on Sunday morning, the public protector's office said the Constitutional Court relied on an old version of the executive code of ethics when it reached its decision on the matter.
Veteran African National Congress (ANC) politician Qubudile Richard Dyantyi wants to hit the ground running with the parliamentary inquiry into the fitness of Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane to hold office.
Senior African National Congress (ANC) MP Qubudile Richard Dyantyi was chosen on Tuesday at a meeting of the multi-party committee that will conduct the inquiry.
After months of court challenges and urgent applications to stop the probe, Parliament will finally move ahead with the removal process.
Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane and the SAHRC are releasing the findings of their joint investigation into the service delivery issues in Alexandra.
Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane is accused of lying under oath about meetings and discussions she had with former President Jacob Zuma several years back.
The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) wanted the court to find that Mkhwebane lied under oath in November 2017 and in April 2018 about the number of meetings and discussions she had with former President Jacob Zuma.
In April 2019, Mkhwebane issued a scathing report and recommended that KwaZulu-Natal Premier Sihle Zikalala should act against Mkhize over a Nelson Mandela memorial service tender, which paid out over R70 million.
Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane's legal representative Dali Mpofu on Wednesday questioned Parliament’s appointment of an independent panel, including a judge, to decide on her impeachment.
These are some of the responses from National Assembly Speaker Thandi Modise and President Cyril Ramaphosa to Mkhwebane in her court battle to have Parliament's rules to remove her declared invalid.
