Busisiwe Mkhwebane has until 6 July to answer inquiry questions.
The Section 194 committee continues its investigation into suspended Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane’s eligibility for office despite persistent obstructionist tactics.
On Sunday, the committee gave Mkhwebane written questions, to which she must respond by July 6.
Legal Expert, Mpumelelo Zikalala helps us unpack Parliaments Section 194 Committee’s decision to proceed with the inquiry into suspended Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane’s fitness to hold office, with or without her presence.
Listen to the full conversation here:
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Zikalala gave insight on why the process of having these questions answered was important, particularly for substantive fairness and procedural fairness.
“If you want to check the competence of the public protector, you must have something that will be used as a tester. Let’s equate it to a teacher marking a set of scripts, there’s a memo that is available. So if we say that this is a public protector that is competent, if you don’t have that memo you are going to have a problem.”
“If you say you have a Public Protector that is involved in issues of misconduct, you need to count those and instance and first determine if those were truly acts of misconduct.” said Zikalala.
By July 28, the group hopes to have finished its task while Mkhwebane’s term as Public Protector expires on October 14.
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