During the Friday session of the parliamentary impeachment inquiry into suspended Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane, the office’s legal services manager was cross-examined about consultancies, sign-offs and pitches – and ongoing revelations about legal fees.
The National Prosecuting Authority is facing widespread pressure over its failure to convict perpetrators of State Capture crimes. In this series, Open Secrets investigates prosecutors inside the NPA who instituted prosecutions without sufficient evidence against officials who investigated Stat.
In June, a month after whistle-blower Vytjie Mentor had sat through the night with an SAPS Captain laboriously penning an 18-page affidavit which this week formed part of the Public Protector's State of Capture report, Hawks head, Lieutenant-General Mthandazo Ntlemeza, denied that the unit was.