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‘Mkhwebane has to clear her name through a parliamentary process’

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Corruption Watch and the Council for the Advancement of the South African Constitution’s representative Michelle Le Roux says the only way to restore confidence in the Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane is to allow the National Assembly process to continue with the inquiry into her fitness to hold office.

They are friends in the court application between both the Speaker and the DA Versus Mkhwebane.

The applicants want the Constitutional Court to grant them direct access to appeal the ruling by a full bench of the High Court in Cape Town.

This is after the  High Court ruled in favour of the Public Protector on two constitutional grounds.

Le Roux emphasised that Mkhwebane has to clear her name through a parliamentary process.

“The only way that this Public Protector can dispel the cloud of doubt and I put it no higher than that, that has been picked up from the increasingly scathing judgments of the courts about her suitability and performance for those functions,- it’s (that) the process must run in Parliament because that’s the only way we can respond confidence in the Public Protector and enable her to complete her term with that not hanging over her any longer.”

Below are the court proceedings:

 

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