Our website use cookies to improve and personalize your experience and to display advertisements (if any). Our website may also include cookies from third parties like Google Adsense, Google Analytics, and Youtube. By using the website, you consent to the use of cookies.

Ramaphosa misled Parliament – Mogoeng

Ramaphosa misled Parliament – Mogoeng

AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER IN a minority judgment, South Africa’s Chief Justice found that President Cyril Ramaphosa personally benefited from the R500 000 contribution to his 2017  campaign to be ANC president and he deliberately misled Parliament and Public Protector Advocate Busi Mkhwebane. Mogoeng said Ramaphosa carefully and intentionally gave a false version of what he knew to be the case, to Mkhwebane. “What he did is highly unethical and a resounding rejection or dereliction of his key constitutional obligations,” Mogoeng said, adding that Ramaphosa's version was “a calculated misrepresentation of the facts by someone who is confident that the truth…
Read More
Double blow for South African Public Protector

Double blow for South African Public Protector

AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER BELEAGUERED South African Public Protector Advocate Busisiwe Mkhwebane suffered two blows yesterday when the Constitutional Court rejected her appeal and the National Assembly voted overwhelmingly to start an investigation into her fitness to hold office. Mkhwebane had approached the Constitutional Court - the highest court in SA - to appeal against a lower court decision that the Parliamentary probe could go on. Hours after the Constitutional Court decision, a total of 275 MPs - with 40 objections and one absention - parties voted to start an investigation into her. She is now the first head of a…
Read More