Concerns over Public Protector 1 day interviews
With South Africans watching the 14 shortlisted candidates to become the next Public Protector on live TV, Corruption Watch says it is concerned that all interviews were stacked into 1 day.
The organisation feels questions were not as strong as the day progressed. Corruption Watch’s Ronald Menoe says they wrote a letter to the ad hoc committee’s chairperson, Makhosi Khoza, highlighting their concerns.
"When the decision was taken she (Khoza) made it clear that she did not want to give one candidate an unfair advantage over another, in the form of other candidates watching the interview process on television and assessing the environment and the kind of questions other candidates are being asked," he said.
"That way the next day when it was their turn they would have known what to expect, so holding the interviews in one day ensured that that no candidate received an unfair advantage over another candidate," Menoe said.