Mkwebane impeachment | Conspiracy allegations are offensive: Mvuyana

JOHANNESBURG - Allegations that investigators in the office of the public protector are involved in a conspiracy to bring down the opponents of Busisiwe Mkhwebane are patently false and offensive according to an investigator in that office Bianca Mvuyana.

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Mvuyana appeared before the section 194 inquiry into Mkhwebane's fitness to hold office on Monday after being subpoenaed by the committee.

She says the allegations are made by people who don't understand how the office works.

She said, "it's offensive, as I've stated. Even the allegation that I was involved in a conspiracy or vendetta against a person I don't know personally and really my integrity as an investigator for all these years, how many investigations have I conducted and what made him that special? So it is offensive and not appreciated."

"But like you said, they don't work at the Public Protector so they'll never know what it is."

"From my experience and what I was exposed to during the time I worked with her during this investigation, I never had any doubt that... there were media reports of course that came out alleging Mr Gordhan would say there's someone on a witch-hunt for him etc. But I never experienced that kind of behaviour from her. She didn't at any point try to influence us to say that we must make a finding against Mr Gordhan and we must ignore certain evidence so that we can make a finding."