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EFF heads to court over Parliamentary bid to oust Mkhwebane The EFF is unhappy with Parliament's possible inquiry into Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane’s fitness to hold office The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) has said it intends approaching the courts, in a bid to challenge Parliament’s decision to go ahead with the inquiry looking into Public Protector, advocate Busisiwe Mkhwebane’s fitness to hold office. A total of 275 members of Parliament (MPs) voted in favour of the inquiry on Tuesday, 16 March 2021, which could see Mkhwebane being removed from her post. A total of 40 parl...

ANC caucus agrees to parliamentary inquiry on Busisiwe Mkhwebane Share Cape Town - The ANC caucus in Parliament agreed to support the process to set up an inquiry to deal with the removal of Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane. On Saturday ANC chief whip Pemmy Majodina said the caucus discussed the matter at length. The statement from Majodina comes after some ANC members have publicly said they would not support a motion from the official opposition to remove Mkhwebane. She said it was not about the merits on the removal of Mkhwebane, but the other process of whether to set up an inquiry.

How will the ANC handle the public protector’s impeachment? By Opinion Professor Sethulego Matebesi No South African will deny that the most criticised Chapter Nine institution in recent times has been the Office of the Public Protector. Five years ago, the National Assembly endorsed advocate Busisiwe Mkhwebane’s candidacy as the fourth public protector with an overwhelming majority vote in 2016. Since then, a litany of adverse court rulings created a see-saw effect between those who support her and those who vehemently oppose her continuation as public protector. This rift is like...

SA: Women’s rights top priority in pandemic Date: March 9, 2021 By Colleen Lowe Morna Johannesburg, 9 March: The Covid-19 pandemic has exacerbated the challenges faced by women worldwide, said ambassadors, other government officials and civil society leaders at the Gender Links Women’s Voice and Leadership Awards ceremony on International Women’s Day yesterday. It is a year since Covid-19 sent nations across the world into various forms of lockdown, with the first anniversary of South Africa’s official lockdown coming up on 27 March. The pandemic has caused social and economic upheava...

Now that Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo has successfully secured a three-month extension of the life of the Commission of Inquiry into State Capture he has chaired so patiently and for so long, there is time and space available to complete the arduous work of taking evidence and to prepare the report he has been tasked with completing. Hopefully, there will also be funding. It needs to be borne in mind that the findings of fact of any commission of inquiry of the kind the deputy chief Justice chairs are not of a binding nature, nor do they, in themselves, entail consequences for those fin...