The Mercury

Mkhwebane in court in bid to interdict Parliament

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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.

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