This despite the high court on Wednesday setting aside her scathing August 2018 report against Cele in which she had lambasted him, saying there was “undue delay, improper conduct, gross negligence and maladministration” by Cele and the police ministry in providing protection to Thabiso Zulu and Lesley Stuta, who were witnesses in her investigation into alleged multimillion-rand corruption in the uMzimkhulu local municipality.
On this matter, Mkhwebane stressed however that she was not in the wrong and neither did the court find her to be. “It has always been clear that while protection of witnesses is paramount, it remains the sole responsibility of the National Prosecution Authority as stated in the Witness Protection Act. The public protector should have known this,” Cele said.
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