Kathrada Foundation Supports Recall of Public Protector
27 May 2019
The Ahmed Kathrada Foundation shares growing public concern over the competence and ability of the Office of the Public Protector to discharge its constitutional and legal obligations.
Last Friday’s hasty adverse findings of the Public Protector, Adv Busisiwe Mkhwebane, against former Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan raises serious questions on the credibility of the process and the report itself.
The Foundation has noted that the National Prosecuting Authority withdrew its charges against Gordhan in 2016 on the same allegations, on the basis that it had no prospect of success, as well as the Nugent Commission of Inquiry’s finding that Ivan Pillay’s pension pay-out by Gordhan was lawful.
The Kathrada Foundation’s Executive Director, Neeshan Balton, said that the Public Protector was acting in a manner that came across as being “irrational” and “driven by an agenda that is clearly not about protecting the interests of the public”.