PRETORIA - President Cyril Ramaphosa has appointed Advocate Dinkie Portia Dube as the new deputy Public Protector.
Dube’s seven-year tenure will start on 1 February 2026.
Dube has more than 20 years of experience in the public sector with expertise in oversight, complaints management and investigation.
She is currently the director-general of the Public Service Commission, before which she served as the chief director of operations in the Office of the Military Ombudsman.
Between 2011 and 2014, she was the provincial director of the Gauteng Office of the Public Protector South Africa.
"President Ramaphosa wishes Adv Dube well in her new role in the Public Protector as a supreme administrative oversight body with the power to investigate, report on and remedy improper conduct in all matters of the State," the Presidency said in a statement.