Mkhwebane impeachment ‘victory for accountability’
The Council for
the Advancement of the South African Constitution says Busisiwe Mkhwebane's
impeachment is a victory for accountability.
MPs voted overwhelmingly yesterday to back a report by the Section 194 Committee that recommended her removal as Public Protector due to misconduct and incompetence.
"Nobody is above the law. If you are appointed to a senior public office as a head of an institution, conduct yourself with the necessary professionalism and impartiality as well as skill and knowledge. All of those things Busiswe Mkhwebane failed to demonstrate and adequately was called out on many of these issues,” says the civil society organisation’s Lawson Naidoo.
The speaker of the National Assembly will now write a letter to officially inform the president of the decision.
President Cyril Ramaphosa will then be obliged to remove Mkhwebane from office.
READ: MPs vote to remove Mkhwebane from office
Naidoo says Mkhwebane's unlikely to take the matter on review to court.
"What is interesting is that throughout the cause of the gratification of the section 19 committee, she barely tackled the allegations made against her, except to repeat ultimates she made in court cases which were already dismissed."
