'Be accountable like Mandela,' Mkhwebane tells Ramaphosa's cabinet

That is what public protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane said in a statement on Wednesday, appealing to members of the government’s executive.

Mkhwebane referred to Mandela taking the stand in the Pretoria High Court in 1998 to testify about his decision in 1997 to establish a commission of inquiry into the South African Rugby Union to look into alleged racism, corruption and nepotism. “I have found this to be problematic. One hopes that one day sanity will prevail and that people will in the end understand that we are all equal before the law as the Constitution tells us,” Mkhwebane said.

Ramaphosa said in his court papers filed at the Pretoria High Court on Monday that Gordhan’s legal challenge to the first of two adverse reports made against him by Mkhwebane was not “frivolous”. The president said he could not make any decisions until Gordhan’s legal review of Mkhwebane’s report.

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