‘Must Everything Be Undermined for the Convenience Of Mr Gordhan?’ Mpofu Asks Court In Ramaphosa/Mkhwebane Legal Battle

Advocate Dali Mpofu has come down hard on President Cyril Ramaphosa, saying the president has gone out of his way to associate himself with vitriolic and gratuitous insults against Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane.

Mpofu was addressing the court during the heads of arguments proceedings Thursday in a bitter legal feud between Mkhwebane and Ramaphosa.

Mpofu, representing the Economic Freedom Fighters, added that it has become fashionable in South Africa to insult the Public Protector.

In an application to suspend remedial action against him, public enterprises minister Pravin Gordhan’s dubbed Mkhwebane a “proponent of State Capture… Part of the defenders of corruption.”