At the close of proceedings on Friday, matters were as murky in Cape Town as a swimming pool at an abandoned Gupta mansion, with the committee chair Qubudile Dyantyi remarking that the risk of depleted legal fees was a threat that had now ‘materialised’.
While two of Busiswe Mkhwebane’s witnesses have told the Section 194 inquiry into her fitness to hold office that she never interfered with investigations, the evidence seems to indicate otherwise.
Only three people worked on Busisiwe Mkhwebane’s relentless investigation into an alleged ‘rogue unit’ at SARS, a highly unprecedented manoeuvre in the history of the Public Protector of South Africa (PPSA).
Minister of Public Enterprises Pravin Gordhan remained a focus in suspended Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane’s Section 194 impeachment inquiry, which resumed on Monday.