Busisiwe Mkhwebane impeachment inquiry
Suspended Public Protector Adv Busisiwe Mkhwebane is facing impeachment after an independent panel found that there was enough evidence to warrant a Section 194 inquiry into her fitness to hold office. The parliamentary hearings and the antics of Mkhwebane’s representative, Adv Dali Mpofu, have kept South Africans glued to their screens.
Suspended Public Protector Adv Busisiwe Mkhwebane is facing impeachment after an independent panel found that there was enough evidence to warrant a Section 194 inquiry into her fitness to hold office.
Power outage and changes to charge sheet lead to delay in Mpofu disciplinary hearing
Dali Mpofu was supported by former Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane at his Legal Practice Council disciplinary hearing on Wednesday, 30 April 2025. Several of the charges relate to how Mpofu conducted himself during cross-examination in a parliamentary inquiry into Mkhwebane’s fitness to hold office.
Mpofu tried to ‘humiliate me’ — ex-SARS executive Van Loggerenberg ahead of lawyer’s disciplinary
Former South African Revenue Service senior executive Johann van Loggerenberg has confirmed that he has agreed to appear as a witness against advocate Dali Mpofu after Mpofu questioned his mental health during a 2022 hearing into former Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane’s fitness to hold office.
MK divisions deepen as Mpumalanga leaders Mkhwebane and Phadi hold rival meetings
Internal divisions within the uMkhonto Wesizwe party, the country’s official opposition, are escalating both behind closed doors and in public, with the conflict over who is the rightful provincial leader in Mpumalanga growing more intense.
Grinch of the Year: MK Party, We Shall Not Be Screwed
The people see your dirty hands, uMkhonto Wesizwe party.
State Security Agency — Are planned retrenchments a purge or a bid to smoke out State Capture sleepers?
Considering the SSA and other intelligence services have been implicated as a key locus of State Capture in several reports, it is peculiar that the DA’s Dianne Kohler Barnard should be of the view that there is no need for an industrial deep clean.
Think Trump is the original? Nah, Zuma did it first
There is now a playbook. Jacob Zuma helped write it.
South Africans are just the most disloyal. It’s sickening!
Askies man Juju, everything’s gonna be fine. Kuzoba right, neh!
Endless defections, lies, distrust and inconsistency undermine SA’s populist parties
Recent events in our politics have revealed some of the underlying tensions in parties like MK, the EFF and the Patriotic Alliance, that may undermine their efforts to win elections in the future. Coming so soon after the re-election of a populist president in the US, this shows the importance of proper party organisation. It may also show how difficult building a party can be if there are high levels of distrust in an organisation.
EFF is in a tight spot after defections and will need a tough reinvention
The recent high-level resignations from the EFF demonstrate the consequences of mismanaging a political party. They also show what can happen when a party loses votes and momentum in an election. All of this contains lessons for other political parties about why party members need to know they could one day be a leader, why it’s bad policy to accept defectors and what happens if a party is centred on one personality.
Busi Mkhwebane quits EFF to ‘rest’, after earlier claiming she would ‘never betray the fighters’
Two months after claiming her resignation from the EFF was ‘fake news’, impeached former Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane has resigned from the party, and thereby her seat in Parliament.
The WholeWeek Wrap with Daily Maverick (14 October 2024)
An organisation being torn apart from the inside – what the conflict between two ANC heavyweights reveals about the party. Then, another fail for former public protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane. Later, the US hurricanes serve as a sobering preview of things to come. And a minister on a mission – Gayton McKenzie delivers on his promises. But first, now that the City of Tshwane has a new mayor at the helm, two coalition role players are pulling in two very different directions. On the one hand, we have the DA making demands – give us back our mayor, or else. And on the other, the EFF is showing us its mature side and calling for stability. All this while the battle for Ekurhuleni heats up.
MK Party Skosana’s latest ‘Cyber bully’ revelation against Public Protector CEO calls for sanction
Public Protector Kholeka Gcaleka’s revelations in Parliament this week that CEO Thandi Sibanyoni had allegedly been threatened by MK Party MP David Skosana, calls for sanction and action.
Gcaleka vs Mkhwebane — Public Protector clashes with impeached predecessor over ‘disrespect’, ‘threats’
Public Protector Kholeka Gcaleka’s statement that her predecessor Busisiwe Mkhwebane was ‘conflicted’ sparked a war of words in Parliament on Thursday that ended with claims that Mkhwebane’s husband had allegedly threatened Gcaleka.
Our Constitution faces a full-frontal attack, and the corporate community must step up and fight back
This is a wake-up call for all South Africans. It is unacceptable that some of the most important cases in defence of our Constitution are being fought by under-funded NGOs.
Yet another slapdown for Mkhwebane as judge dismisses ‘absurd’ bid for R10m gratuity
Ordering the former public protector to pay costs, Judge Omphemetse Mooki also slammed her attacks on the National Assembly and her successor, Kholeka Gcaleka.
Mkhwebane’s racist attack on judiciary will not be tolerated — Office of the Chief Justice
Racist attacks by EFF MP Busisiwe Mkhwebane on the judiciary will not be tolerated, the Office of the Chief Justice has warned, while the DA is poised to refer the matter to Parliament’s ethics committee.
Mkhwebane resorts to crude nativism and attack on judiciary after SCA defeat
Disgraced former public protector and current EFF MP Busisiwe Mkhwebane has resorted to crude nativism after a costly further legal defeat in the Supreme Court of Appeal this week.
Mkhwebane suffers another legal blow, with costs, after SCA strikes appeal off the court roll
Serial legal delinquent, former Public Protector and current EFF MP Busisiwe Mkhwebane has failed (again) in an attempt to appeal against a decision on her Section 194 impeachment inquiry.
The SA Human Rights Commission’s misguided quest to have its directives made binding
The creation of institutions with binding powers that exist outside of the control of the executive, legislature and judiciary is inimical to the idea of good government. Instead, it creates multiple tyrants, free from immediate accountability, each acting according to their own desire.
Concerted effort needed from legal profession to fix ‘incompetent’ Legal Practice Council
Two recent high court judgments, as well as revelations about the politicisation of its disciplinary processes, suggest the Legal Practice Council is not currently serving the best interests of the legal profession.
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