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MPs to discuss request for Mkhwebane to be removed from office in September

Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane

Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane

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31st July 2019

By: African News Agency

  

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Members of Parliament are set to discuss a request to look into the fitness of Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane to hold office once the parliamentary recess period is over, chairperson of Parliament's portfolio committee on justice said on Wednesday.

In a statement, committee chairperson Bulelani Magwanishe said the request by the Democratic Alliance chief whip John Steenhuisen had been referred to MPs via Speaker Thandi Modise.

"The committee will discuss the request and map out a way forward at the first possible opportunity when it resumes its work after the Parliamentary recess period, provisionally set down for 3 September 2019," said Magwanishe.

"It is only after that the committee would be able to comment further on this matter."

Calls for Mkhwebane to be removed from office had intensified over the past few weeks following several scathing court judgments against her.

In terms of the Constitution, the Public Protector can only be removed from office on the grounds of "misconduct, incapacity or incompetence" or "a finding to that effect by a committee of the National Assembly". A resolution to this effect must then be adopted in the National Assembly and can only be done via a two thirds majority.

Edited by African News Agency

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