Enormous legal bill could leave public protector’s office exceeding budget, senior manager says

Meanwhile, the DA’s shadow minister of justice and constitutional development Glynnis Breytenbach said her party would write to acting public protector Kholeka Gcaleka to request a full audit on all funds spent by the public protector's office to defend Mkhwebane in court and the media.

“It should be determined if any of this expenditure was inappropriate — and if so, the repayment of these funds should be sought from Mkhwebane,” Breytenbach said in a statement. “The office of the public protector is central to our constitutional framework. All funds spent by the institution must be in furtherance of its core mandate.

“Should any expenditure be found to have been inappropriately spent by the office to further personal agendas of the public protector, every effort should be made to recoup these costs from the suspended public protector directly.”Advocate Dali Mpofu SC earned about R12m in briefs from Seanego Attorneys.The public protector’s office spent about R4m defending her CR17 report, R3.4m defending her Estina dairy report, and R15m on litigation against minister Pravin Gordhan.

The payment of about R120,000 for a media campaign allegedly to rehabilitate the public protector’s image and criticise the courts that ruled against her.

Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)

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