Dear Editor,

The former (now impeached and pensionless) Public Protector, Adv Busisiwe Mkhwebane, has formed a Foundation bearing her name and has joined the MK party.

Her foundation has reportedly written to the American Federal Bureau of Investigation and to the Department of Justice in the USA to report the discovery, in the presidential guest house couch at Phala Phala, of a great deal of cash in dollars (the exact amount is unclear at this stage) by a gang of burglars. The foundation, not to put too fine a point on it, would like to know from the American authorities whether it was kosher for the dollars to be kept in the couch for more than a month before they were stolen, and also, whether to the knowledge of the American authorities, the dollars were legally in the country when they were stolen. In other words, should the dollars have been there at all.

There is poetic irony in the fact that Cyril Ramaphosa, as sitting president, suspended Mhkwebane, and, after a committee of the National Assembly inquired into her fitness for office, removed her as Public Protector in accordance with a resolution of the National Assembly which stated that should be her fate.

The Americans are protective of the status of their mighty dollar and may well take a dim view of the facts that the foundation has drawn to their attention. Watch this space…

Yours in accountability,

Paul Hoffman SC