Former president Jacob Zuma and suspended Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane at Mahlamba Ndlopfu in Pretoria on 13 December 2016. Picture: GCIS
When Oliver Twist said: “Please, sir, I want some more,” at least he had humility and genuine want on his side, starving as he was in an English “workhouse”.
Busisiwe Mkhwebane has no such saving grace. She thinks that it is “unrealistic and absurd” that the Office of the Public Protector has set a cap of R4 million to fund her fight to save her job in the parliamentary Section 194 hearing.
Possibly she is correct, because so far her Stalingrad defence has already cost taxpayers more than R30 million – and it would be a brave legal firm indeed which turns down that money for jam.
She has already cost the fiscus (translation: we, the taxpayers) millions in the long list of court cases she has lost because of her legal incompetence.
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That, in and of itself, should be enough evidence that she is not fit for office… but there is a legal process to be followed, so she is dragging things out before parliament.
When she and her friend Jacob Zuma are allowed to squander huge amounts of public money to delay legal proceedings, it amounts to abuse of the justice system. We agree that a cap should be set on funding this circus.
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