Mkhwebane in court in bid to interdict Parliament
PUBLIC Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane is back in the Western Cape High Court to lodge an application to interdict Parliament from continuing with the impeachment process against her.
This is a week after the Section 194 committee in Parliament agreed to go ahead with the impeachment, and hearings are scheduled to start in July.
The Section 194 committee has also called for members of the public to submit evidence against the public protector. The committee intends to finalise the inquiry in September.
Mkhwebane’s application was postponed in the court last month after counsel for Parliament reported an incident. This related to an SMS about the judgment of the rescission application. The SMS came from Ismail Abramjee, who had indicated in the message that the public protector would lose the application.
The Constitutional Court delivered the judgment a week later and threw out the rescission application by Mkhwebane. The public protector has since lodged a case against Abramjee.
Mkhwebane has filed another application for the court to rescind the judgment on the rescission application. But Parliament advisers said the committee could continue with its work despite the application by Mkhwebane to interdict Parliament from doing this.