PHUTI MOSOMANE
In a startling revelation, Suspended Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane, accused “the Legislature, the Executive and the Judiciary as well as the ANC/DA alliance” of being responsible for the death of the late ANC MP Tina Joemat-Pettersson.
Mkhwebane said in a media briefing on Tuesday Joemat-Pettersson would still be alive if all the state entities she mentioned “had complied with their constitutional obligations. In a way all these institutions killed Ms Joemat-Pettersson,” she charged.
However, shortly after Mkhwebane’s media briefing, Parliament spokesperson Moloto Mothapo said both the National Assembly Speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula and Parliament “will not engage in public mudslinging with anyone, particularly when it involves ongoing investigations by various institutions, including Parliament.”
Mothapo said engaging in such would be fruitless, counterproductive, and undermine the truth-seeking efforts of these institutions as well as showing lack of sensitivity and respect to the bereaved family still coming to terms with the
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