Busisiwe Mkhwebane confident of vindication in perjury case
Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane is confident she will he cleared of the perjury charges against her.
Mkhwebane is set to appear in the Pretoria Magistrate’s Court on January 21.
The charges stem from a perjury complaint laid by civil society organisation Accountability Now.
It laid the charge against Mkhwebane following a Constitutional Court ruling which found her to have been dishonest in her investigation into the apartheid-era loan by the SA Reserve Bank to Bankorp.
Her spokesperson Oupa Segalwe says they received the summons on Tuesday.
“As a law-abiding citizen, the public protector will cooperate and present herself to the court on 21 January as required and is confident that the court will clear her of any wrongdoing.”
Accountability Now director Advocate Paul Hoffman has written a letter to President Cyril Ramaphosa, asking him to suspend Mkhwebane.
“It is not for the first time that Advocate Hoffman has sought to nail the public protector. In July 2019, he laid a complaint with the Legal Practice Council to have her struck off the roll of advocates,” says Segalwe.
“In March 2020, the High Court in Pretoria dismissed his application for a declaratory order that the public protector was unfit to hold office.”
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