Busisiwe Mkhwebane risks being caught in a web of contradictions
(World News South Africa)

Public protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane, who is facing a potential inquiry into her fitness to hold office, has repeatedly said she is a truly independent watchdog who does not deserve the multiple findings of perceived bias against her. But two of Mkhwebane`s most high-profile legal battles, aimed at overturning the scathing judgments delivered about her invalidated probes into the Estina dairy project “scam” and President Cyril Ramaphosa`s CR17 election campaign funding, have again raised serious questions about the apparent inconsistency in her approach to politically loaded investigations. That`s because, in separate sworn affidavits before the Constitutional Court and Supreme Court of...