Restoring the image of the public protector’s office and staff morale are priorities of candidates interviewed on Wednesday for the position of public protector. Advocates Tseliso Thipanyane, Kwena Ntsewa, Oliver Josie and Lynn Marais…
The office of the public protector says it will mediate in the two-month-long dispute between artists, the National Arts Council (NAC) and the department of sport, arts and culture. The artists held a sit-in at the NAC’s offices for a…
“I think some people would self-disclose if they knew they would be given an opportunity to do so without dire consequences.” There are the words of former public protector Thuli Madonsela, who is urging South Africans to consider…
Eastern Cape premier Oscar Mabuyane, two of his MECs and his chief of staff are being investigated by the public protector’s office relating to allegations of improper conduct. The public protector is also investigating the Eastern Cape…
DA chief whip John Steenhuisen on Monday hailed the interim court interdict granted to president Cyril Ramaphosa against Busisiwe Mkhwebane as another reason for the public protector to be booted out. Steenhuisen said the judgment‚ along…
The EFF has lashed out at a court ruling on Thursday which saw President Cyril Ramaphosa winning a key legal battle against public protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane. Judge Lettie Molopa-Sethosa found that Ramaphosa had complied with the…
Busisiwe Mkhwebane’s insistence that remedial action by the public protector be implemented immediately ignored the fact of a pending judicial review against her report. This was the view of counsel for public enterprises minister Pravin…
‘I never benefited financially. In fact‚ I donated significant amounts’: Ramaphosa on CR17 campaign President Cyril Ramaphosa has told the North Gauteng high court that public protector Busiswe Mkhwebane got so much wrong in her report…
The Constitutional Court has dismissed Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane’s appeal against a high court judgment which ordered that she personally pay 15 percent of the costs from her own pocket in a case involving the South African…
Advocate Busisiwe Mkhwebane said she was not trying to play to the political gallery by releasing a report with adverse findings against Pravin Gordhan on Friday. The public protector found that Gordhan had irregularly approved the early…
Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane is not giving up her fight to overturn the estimated R900‚000 legal bill she was ordered to pay after her disastrous court battle with the Reserve Bank. The High Court in Pretoria ordered that Mkhwebane…
