PREMIER ZILLE TO TAKE PUBLIC PROTECTOR’S REPORT AND FINDINGS ON HIGH COURT REVIEW
19 December 2018
The Public Protector has once again, reflected her severely limited understanding of the constitution and the law, and I will, yet again, be taking her finding against me on review to the High Court.
I reject out of hand that:
1) There was any conflict of interest between my public role as Premier, and the fact that I supported my son, a mathematics teacher in Khayelitsha at the time, to borrow equipment of the Western Cape Education Department in order to run free matric preparation workshops in disadvantaged schools; and
2) Insofar as there may have been a perception of a conflict of interest, I fulfilled the requirements of the law in mitigating it.