Mkhwebane impeachment | "It's not a committee for removal, it's a committee for fitness"

PARLIAMENT - The Democratic Alliance's draft rules for the inquiry speak about her removal from and not her fitness for office is the claim of suspended Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane.

She was speaking during the Section 194 inquiry.

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Mkhwebane says the inquiry should be focusing on determining her fitness for the office, and not her removal, as this has left her feeling like the committee has predetermined the outcome. 

She said, "it was like being summarily removed, the worst part is those rules didn't include the issue of legal representation and I think they were drafted in such a way that it covers the chapter nine institutions but as you go through the letters, the communications from the DA you would see that those rules were drafted specifically for me because there is where in the letter where it says for the removal of the Public Protector and that's another issue of the removal because this process shouldn't be for the removal, this process should be for the determination for the fitness to perform your responsibilities...that is still a process, you are not just in a constitutional state, just speak about the removal..."

"I think that is what I have picked up in this committee when they are reading for the people to take an oath, they will just say the committee for the removal of the public protector, it’s not a committee for the removal, it’s a committee to determine fitness... allow yourself to be labelled that it means...sometimes I feel it is a predetermined process or an outcome.”