The Nkwinti report is already in the public domain but Nkwinti’s attorney, Mxolisi Myambo, said the judgment would prevent the implementation of the remedial action directed in the report.The report found that Nkwinti abused his position as minister to benefit his friend, . In 2011, the rural development and land reform department bought a farm worth R97-million and, after a referral from Nkwinti, handed its management to Present and a business partner.
Nkwinti went to court urgently just before the report was due to be publicly released, because he said he had never responded to the allegations against him. Mkhwebane had given him 18 days to respond, but two requests for extensions went unanswered — until the day the report was signed off, when the requests were refused.
The spokesperson for the public protector, Oupa Segalwe, said they were “puzzled” by the order as the report had already been distributed to parties and published in the media. “This renders the judgment rather academic,” he said.The story took a twist when it emerged in court papers that the person who implemented the Bekendvlei acquisition — then deputy director general of the land department Vussy Mahlangu — was now the chief executive at the office of the public protector.
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