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News24 Wire The Pretoria High Court also rejected Mkhwebane s efforts to challenge the 15% personal costs order granted against her. Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane. Picture: Jacques Nelles
Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane’s bid to challenge the invalidation of her report on Minister Pravin Gordhan and the so-called “SARS rogue unit” – as well as the 15% personal costs order granted against her – have been dismissed by the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria.
Judges Selby Baqwa, Annali Basson and Leonie Windell had ruled in December last year that Mkhwebane’s conclusion that Gordhan had established an illegal unit at SARS was “without foundation, particularly as this conclusion is based on discredited reports and unsubstantiated facts”.
BUSI MUST COUGH UP IN ROGUE UNIT CASE! News24.com Adv Busisiwe Mkhwebane. Photo by Deaan Vivier.
Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane s bid to challenge the invalidation of her report on Minister Pravin Gordhan and the so-called SARS rogue unit – as well as the 15% personal costs order granted against her – have been dismissed by the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria.
Judges Selby Baqwa, Annali Basson and Leonie Windell had ruled in December last year that Mkhwebane s conclusion that Gordhan had established an illegal unit at SARS was without foundation, particularly as this conclusion is based on discredited reports and unsubstantiated facts .
Jan Gerber, News24
The Gauteng High Court in Pretoria on Friday dismissed Busisiwe Mkhwebane and the EFF s application to appeal the invalidation of her SARS rogue unit report, saying the appeals did not have reasonable prospects of success.
Judge Selby Baqwa confirmed the full Bench s order that Mkhwebane must personally pay 15% of Pravin Gordhan s legal costs in challenging that report, based on her egregious conduct during the case.
Mkhwebane still has the option of petitioning the Supreme Court of Appeal to hear her case, in which she hits out at the worrying trend of courts in issuing personal costs orders against her.
Andrew Mkhondo
Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane has unreservedly apologised for wrongly accusing Judge Sulet Potterill of deliberately omitting words of the Executive Ethics Code, in a ruling she gave in favour of Pravin Gordhan.
But Mkhwebane nevertheless insisted the 15% personal costs order granted against her by the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria for, among other things, her shockingly inappropriate personal attack on Potterill was unwarranted, and part of a tendency by that court to grant such orders against her. This tendency points to a worrying trend and legitimate concerns of institutionalised judicial bias against the Public Protector particularly in the North Gauteng High Court, Mkhwebane s lawyers argued in an appeal application due to be heard on Friday.