Mkhwebane wastes taxpayers’ money once again
20 November 2017
The DA condemns Public Protector, Busisiwe Mkhwebane’s, late withdrawal of her application to postpone proceedings in the court case in which her report on the ABSA/CIEX bail-out is being challenged.
She did offer to pay punitive costs but this is easy to do when you are spending other people’s money and therefore, she has yet again wasted public resources.
The fact is that she should not have launched such an application, which was clearly frivolous.
This is not the first time Mkhwebane has wasted taxpayers’ money in this fashion. Since her appointment, she’s wastefully incurred legal costs including: