Paul Hoffman: SA must throw overboard its PP, “loose cannon” Mkhwebane
The Public Protector has become like a punch drunk boxer taking one knock after the other, but she is still on her feet with one side of a very vocal crowd egging on her to take another swipe at Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan and to ultimately keep fighting to get the big one, President Cyril Ramaphosa. The stacks are very high for her supporters, the loss of power and opportunities to stick their hands into the ample state cookie jar and for many of them the possibility of jail. The EFF's motives are more obscure, but it is related to the fact that their backers may be targeted by SARS. Busisiwe Mkhwebane's defeats in the high court and the Constitutional Court are stacking up like the various synonyms for incompetence and dishonesty that the courts are using in judgements again her. Her efforts to nail Pravin Gordhan and Cyril Ramaphosa, is also starting to hit her and the EFF in the pocket. On Thursday, 1st August, an urgent application by President Ramaphosa to have the implementation of remedial action ordered by the ombudsman against him suspended, will be heard after the case was postponed today because a judge could not be found. Accountability Now's founder Paul Hoffman says Mkhwebane is a "loose cannon" who is rolling around the deck of the ship of state and needs to be "thrown overboard". Paul was a guest on Rational Radio and he explained how this can be achieved. – Linda van Tilburg
Paul Hoffman says Mkhwebane, the loose cannon, "is going to break a couple of legs if she's allowed to keep rolling… Let's toss it overboard and get on with it as soon as possible." He says she's not doing the country or herself any good at the moment. Hoffman, who asked the Legal Practice Council to investigate the Public Protector, thinks the Constitutional Court judgement could be enough grounds for Mkhwebane to be dismissed.
He says people who want to have their name on the role of advocates in the High Court in South Africa cannot commit criminal offences and certainly cannot hold the court in the sort of contempt that Mkhwebane has done, not only in her response to the judgement but also in her attempts to misrepresent the situation. To lie under oath in affidavits filed before the court and "even deemed to display the level of gross incompetence which she has displayed in bringing her mind to the tasks, functions and obligations of the Public Protector."
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