“The impeachment effort is therefore doomed to fail if subjected to any fair judicial scrutiny,” she said, appearing to pre-empt the findings of the committee. “ No court of law can possibly uphold a contrary finding which will inevitably be made by the current DA-ANC overwhelming majority in the committee,” said Mkhwebane on Wednesday. But we leave that to the formidable evidence leader, advocate Nazreen Bawa, when she gets to bite the cherry in the coming days. It was like being in a parallel universe, as mounds of evidence, none of which was engaged with during the entire day, had been presented to the committee. Visit Daily Maverick’s home page for more news, analysis and investigationsĪbout witnesses called to the inquiry - “disgruntled” employees whose evidence belonged in the labour court, according to Mpofu - they had “exonerated me of any impeachable wrongdoing in respect of any single one of the charges”. “I could make a difference,” she shot back, both possibly unaware of the tone-impaired in-joke. While she was being charged with “incompetence”, the country was dealing with up to eight hours a day of load shedding, to which Mpofu quipped: “Maybe you could go to Eskom?” She was the target of a political campaign because she had dared to “touch the untouchables”, “capital”, said Mkhwebane, no doubt an oblique reference to her stealth-bomb Reserve Bank/CIEX report.Īs a servant of the people, she had come across “raw state power” and “people with deep pockets” when she dared to investigate President Cyril Ramaphosa. ![]() Read more in Daily Maverick: “ Busisiwe Mkhwebane claims probe nothing more than ANC and DA political witch-hunt for touching ‘untouchables’ ”Īddressing committee members as well as the public on online platforms and TV, Mkhwebane and her legal representative, advocate Dali Mpofu, hammered the point that she was a victim. ![]() She has sat through nine months of testimony from more than 20 witnesses.įrom the start she aimed her cannon, accusing the Democratic Alliance and the ANC of colluding to get rid of her, essentially, “for doing my work”. This was Mkhwebane’s moment in the spotlight, one she had said earlier she had been looking forward to.
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