The Justice and Correctional Services Portfolio Committee National Assembly Parliament Cape Town By email 16th January 2017 Dear Honourable Members, RE: The first provisional report of the new Public Protector concerning our Ciex complaint We campaign for accountability and responsiveness as “Accountability Now”. We persuaded the previous Public Protector in July 2011 to reopen […]
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Complaint to Public Protector Regarding Maladministration on the Part of the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC)
Complaint letter from IFAISA addressed to the Public Protector : dated 16th May 2013 Letters to and from the IEC before complaint to Public Protector regarding maladministration on the part of the IEC: Letter from IFAISA addressed to the Chairperson of the IEC : dated 18th February 2013 Letter from the IEC addressed to IFAISA […]
How many times can the Public Protector lose in court?
Paul Hoffman | 09 October 2020 Paul Hoffman writes on Busisiwe Mkhwebane’s latest legal setback A Full Bench of the Western Cape High Court has sent the Public Protector packing, again, refusing her all forms of interdictory relief she claimed against both president and parliament in Part A of her case. The court also warned […]
Why Accountability Now has laid charges against Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane
Opinionista • Paul Hoffman • 5 August 2019 • DailyMaverick The brouhaha surrounding the credibility and suitability for high office of Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane has reached a crescendo of ugly noise in which the facts and applicable legal principles seem to be playing an increasingly irrelevant role. In order to concentrate the minds of […]
The powers of the Public Protector
By Paul Hoffman* Now that the high jinks of Busisiwe Mkhwebane, our current Public Protector, have been characterised as both dishonest and indicative of her incompetence by our highest court and by our long-suffering and chronically persecuted Minister of Public Enterprises, Pravin Gordhan, it is an opportune time to take stock of what should be […]
Legal confusion reigns in latest spat between Public Protector and Ramaphosa
Opinionista • Paul Hoffman • 21 July 2019 Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane and President Cyril Ramaphosa are both right and both wrong in the legal spat over the donation to the CR17 campaign. Following the publication on 19 July 2019 of the Public Protector’s report on the DA and EFF complaints about the conduct of […]
‘Mkhwebane should quit as Public Protector after ConCourt judgment’
23 July 2019 7:30 AM Accountability Now director advocate Paul Hoffman says if Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane is properly advised she will quit in the next few days. Hoffman comments come after the Constitutional Court on Monday upheld the Pretoria High Court’s order that she should pay 15% South African Reserve Bank (Sarb) legal fees […]
Parliament asked to speed up Public Protector removal after ConCourt ruling
2019-07-22 15:13 Jan Gerber After a damning Constitutional Court ruling against Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane on Monday, some political parties and civil society organisations want the parliamentary process to remove her from office expedited and struck off the advocates roll. The court upheld a personal costs order against Mkhwebane and, in a majority ruling, found […]
LETTER: Public protector can police the executive
The office has the power to investigate allegations of money laundering 09 July 2019 – 05:02 Business Day Genevieve Quintal is mistaken to think the public protector does not have jurisdiction to investigate money laundering (or indeed any criminal activity) on the part of a member of the executive (“Legal costs: president could set an […]
In defence of the Office of the Public Protector – Paul Hoffman
27th June 2019 BizNews By Paul Hoffman Those who follow the legally oriented part of current commentary on political developments in SA have the benefit of the views of two learned professors, the one real (Professor Pierre de Vos of UCT) and the other not (Professor Balthazar, the nom de plume of a lawyer who […]
