Barely a month after she was removed from office, impeached Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane has joined the EFF, saying the party will allow her to ‘continue to fight and protect South Africans’ Barely a month after she was removed from office, impeached Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane h.
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The vote came down to 318 for Mkhwebane’s removal from office comfortably more than the constitutionally required two-thirds support, or 267 votes and 43 against, with one abstention, from Cope leader Mosiuoa Lekota.
The National Assembly’s decision to immediately impeach Mkhwebane now goes to President Cyril Ramaphosa, who must remove her from office in line with Section 194(3)(b) a month short of the expiration of her seven-year non-renewable term.
The ignoble end to Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane’s stint her unprecedented impeachment inquiry has upheld four misconduct and incompetence counts coincides with the search for a new boss of this constitutionally established office.