Not investigating politicians is a breach of standards, former public protector tells inquiry into her successor, Busisiwe Mkhwebane

The senior counsel suggested to MPs that everything a former employee of the public protector’s office said was a lie

After considering a 25-page defence submitted by Mkhwebane, the justice portfolio committee voted that it was premature to begin proceedings

Mkhwebane is fighting a court order which ruled she was liable for part of the legal costs incurred by the Reserve Bank in the Bankorp matter

The case relates to an earlier court case which followed a report which Mkhwebane released in June 2017

The high court has dismissed Busisiwe Mkhwebane’s application for leave to appeal a judgment that she pay 15% of the costs incurred by SARB

The public protector’s ill-conceived report and behaviour are grounds for Parliament to oust her

Mkhwebane personally on the hook to pay some of the Reserve Bank’s costs

In June this year, Mkhwebane put her signature to a report that seemed to suggest that the government must recover R1.125-billion from Absa.

The hearing is expected to wrap on Wednesday afternoon or during the course of Thursday morning.​

Gigaba has asked the court to overturn the entire Bankorp report rather than just striking down sections of it, as Absa and the Reserve Bank has asked

After getting wrong the law and the facts, the public protector outsourced the process of trying to justify a crucial report, ABSA told the court.

Busisiwe Mkhwebane has been accused of a conspiracy with the spy agency and presidency

In its application to review Mkhwebane’s report the Reserve Bank listed what it calls a number of “evidential factual inaccuracies therein”.

Busisiwe Mkhwebane won’t oppose the Bank’s application to have the report reviewed but the Bank says there are factual inaccuracies in the report.

Nationalisation would leave people at the mercy of a government that has already proven to be self-serving and intent on growing personal wealth.

Instead, it relies on the Ciex report, which is little more than a sales pitch by a bounty hunter.

The ex-president was one of many prominent figures to be interviewed in the probe into a bailout given to Absa.

The public protector’s leaked report into the Reserve Bank bailouts of Bankorp has set the cat among the pigeons.

The public protector’s leaked report has set the cat among the pigeons. Some claim the facts have been skewed to the point of absurdity.