Mkhwebane defends not probing Magashule, Guptas in Vrede report
6 March 2018
Cape Town - Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane has told MPs that there were no complaints about Free State Premier Ace Magashule or the infamous Gupta family at the time that her office compiled the Vrede dairy report.
Mkhwebane appeared before the Portfolio Committee on Justice on Tuesday, and said new information only came to light in the so-called Gupta Leaks, after the report had been completed and "think-tanked" in 2015.
Her office has come under fire for not including remedial actions against Magashule, the Guptas or then agriculture MEC in the province Mosebenzi Zwane, in her report, which was released earlier this year.
The matter though, was brought to the attention of her predecessor in 2013 by a Democratic Alliance member in the Free State, before her time, and it only asked to probe mismanagement of funds in government, Mkhwebane said.