How to impeach the protector

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After the Constitutional Court judgment against her, removing Busisiwe Mkhwebane from her position is the obvious next step. But it is a difficult process — it was designed to be, to protect the independence of the public watchdog.

The country’s highest court — from which there is no appeal or review — has awarded both punitive and personal costs against public protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane. This is a mark of disapproval of a constitutional office-bearer so severe and so rare that in his dissenting judgment Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng even described it as a “novelty”.

The Constitutional Court went further, saying Mkhwebane had told “falsehoods” and had given contradictory explanations for why she had meetings with the president and had not disclosed them in her report. It also implicated her competence, saying her “entire model of investigation was flawed”. Then, once the process of the committee is under way, the president has the power to suspend the public protector, says the Constitution.

Importantly, the judgment said that it would be “impossible” to impeach the president “without rules defining the entire process”. And these cannot be ad hoc procedures drawn from rules that apply elsewhere, said the judgment. The rules for the president provide for a preliminary investigation by a panel of three “fit and proper, competent, experienced and respected South Africans, which may include a judge, and who collectively possess the necessary legal competence and experience”.

 

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anc and their coalition partners , da and freedom front plus can make a two third majority.

It’s easy, wait till the teletubbies storm out in protest about something, then hold a quick vote!😂

What the hell are parliament waiting for. Get on with the voting.

ANC + DA should make 2/3 required. Good luck

Leave the real public protector tu.. Her 'sin' she is touching the don't wanna be touched..

She won't be impeached, she is not going anywhere she's doing a great job

Go auntie, go! You should be out anyway

You are so desperate. This bias is so annoying.

Can you assist to fast track her removal , but her factual report will stay relevant, someone will be attending our courts after his second term facing money laundering, her report will assist at that time.

This desperation is in the extreme

Lol Is 'some people' the new name for South African media?

Only god will remove the woman as she said

DKB20 It's a good start!!

she lost credibility so she better just resign

no one gonna remove this woman! no one gonna remove this woman!!! we will see!!!!!!

She has done her work. She has exposed the hypocrisy of the media and apartheid foundations. The DA-ANC alliance will win, but we know the truth

But she is not going anywhere.

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