The solicitor-general has appointed a new legal team to represent suspended public protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane in the parliamentary inquiry into her fitness to hold office.
The work of the section 194 committee came to a halt last week to allow Mkhwebane to find new lawyers to represent her in the inquiry. The last committee meeting was on May 17. “We want to have a fair process so that we are not accused of proceeding without the public protector not having her legal representatives. But it’s not going to be forever, we gave them a date to say by this time they must be done with that,” said Dlakude.