Mkhwebane files Ramaphosa evidence at high court
Updated | By Nokukhanya Mntambo
Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane’s legal team has filed the record of evidence in the ongoing legal battle over the Bosasa funding received by President Cyril Ramaphosa’s CR17 campaign.
The records were filed in the high court in Pretoria on Wednesday.
These include leaked emails and bank statements whose veracity has been called into question.
Last week Ramaphosa’s legal team requested the court to seal certain information contained in the record of Mkhwebane's report on Bosasa.
According to a leaked court document, the high court's deputy judge president Aubrey Ledwaba has instructed that the records remain sealed.
BREAKING: DJP Ledwaba writes to lawyers for @PublicProtector, President stating that - because “issue regarding the records of the Public Protector not to be made public has not yet been resolved” - those records must be filed at his office, not be publicly available @BDliveSA pic.twitter.com/6oPAS3jrQo
— Karyn Maughan (@karynmaughan) August 14, 2019
The public protector's spokesperson Oupa Segalwe says the matter is in the court's hands.
"Our job here is to file the record with the court in terms of the court rules and therefore it will be up to the court as to what it does with the request that came from the president's attorneys.”
The Public Protector has investigative mandate in terms of the constitution and all documents were acquired legally from the credible statutory institution. No record was acquired criminally https://t.co/0dNhBkmWJx
— Adv Busisiwe Mkhwebane (@AdvBMkhwebane) August 14, 2019
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