Twitter thinks Mkhwebane should call it a day

EFF national spokesperson Mbuyiseni Ndlozi and former minister of tourism Derek Hanekom are among the growing number of South Africans who think it is time for public protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane to go.

Her recommendation that parliament should enact a constitutional amendment to expand the Reserve Bank’s mandate has had a lot of people wondering if the public protector is out of her depth.

Mkhwebane agreed on Monday in her answering affidavit to the high court that her remedial action of amendments to the constitution could be reviewed and set aside. She was willing to pay the legal costs for the Reserve Bank, but not for those of Absa.

Mkhwebane had earlier said in a statement she would no longer be opposing the Reserve Bank’s challenge to her report on Absa, in effect conceding she did not have a strong case.

Ndlozi said the fact that the public protector was even offering to “pay for legal costs of opposing counsels” highlighted just how out of her depth she was.

“We call on her to do the honourable thing and step down. This is not only for an illegitimate and dangerous remedial action, but also for the audacity of offering to use public funds to pay for her incompetent decisions.

“If she really is genuine in her realisation of how flawed her remedial action is, why did she wait for others to initiate a court action? More fundamentally, she should be protecting public funds, not using them wastefully. Thus, if she is genuine, she should be offering to pay these legal costs personally.

“Had no one challenged her dangerous remedial action regarding constitutional amendment, she would have basically coerced the whole country into a wrong direction.”

Hanekom echoed Ndlozi’s views, and tweeted that her resignation would be the honourable to do.

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