Errors in Law and Fact – Mashaba to Approach the Courts to Overturn Public Protector’s Report
21 December 2020
The release of the Public Protector’s report today in relation to my tenure as the Mayor of Johannesburg is disappointing.
Both during my term of office, and in the year that followed, numerous submissions have been made that refute the allegations and findings of the report. However, a pattern has emerged where this evidence has been constantly either overlooked or ignored.
In August this year, the draft report was leaked to no fewer than 6 Sunday newspapers in what was clearly a coordinated effort. Despite raising this with the Public Protector and laying criminal charges against the illegal leak of a draft report, nothing has been done about this.
Most bizarre was the communication in December 2019 that the case had been dropped, a development widely covered in the media.