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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 issu...

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 tr...

Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane has argued that a full bench of the North Gauteng High Court erred when it overturned her report on the so-called SARS “rogue unit” and lumped her with a personal costs order for her “egregious” conduct. Mkhwebane and the EFF’s application for leave to appeal the December 2020 judgment was heard in a virtual sitting of the court on Friday, 23 April 2021. That judgment dismissed the findings in Mkhwebane’s July 2019 report, which found that Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan had established an illegal intelligence-gathering unit while he ...

Tertiary qualification never a requirement for a political position in SA – Bonginkosi Madikizela on CV scandal Share Cape Town – The ANC and Good Party in the Western Cape have called on Premier Alan Winde to remove Public Works and Transport MEC Bonginkosi Madikizela from the provincial cabinet Calls for the axing of Madikizela, who is also the DA’s Western Cape provincial leader, come as it has emerged that he has allegedly lied about holding a BCom degree in Human Resources. The issue was brought to light after media reports that Madikizela may have lied about his qualifica...

Western Cape Transport MEC Bonginkosi Madikizela has been suspended for 14 days while an investigation has been launched into the misrepresentation of his qualifications, Premier Alan Winde announced on Thursday. “I met with Minister Madikizela yesterday afternoon, where I raised my concerns with him and asked for an explanation,” said Winde in a statement. “During that meeting I made clear that acting with integrity is non-negotiable to me, and to the people of the Western Cape.” Winde said he decided to suspend Madikizela for 14 days with immediate effect “while an investigation d...