SUSPENDED Public Protector (PP) Busisiwe Mkhwebane has given President Cyril Ramaphosa to reverse her suspension or face a legal battle.
In a strongly worded letter to the president in which she challenged her suspension, Mkhwebane said that Ramaphosa ignored crucial submissions that she made to him.
“Your decision to suspend me, as you put it, ‘pending the finalisation of the process taking place in the National Assembly’ is decidedly unlawful and invalid in that, to your knowledge, your power to do so in terms of section 194(3)(a) is not lawfully triggered by the taking place of the process but only arises ‘at any time after the start of the proceedings of a committee of the National Assembly for the removal of that person’.”
“Alternatively, I hereby squarely challenge you to pronounce when and on what occasion you may allege that the proceedings envisaged in the section had indeed started.
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