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The details were shared in Constitutional Court on Thursday, where attorney Busisiwe Mkhwebane applied for an urgent license to appeal a Pretoria High Court decision that overturned her report on the illegality of Ramaphosa’s CR17 campaign fundraising.
Public protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane. Image: @PublicProtector / Twitter.
JOHANNESBURG – Lawyers for President Cyril Ramaphosa have argued that the Public Defender ignored all the facts before her in order to achieve the result she desired, based on absolutely untenable facts.
The details were shared in Constitutional Court on Thursday, where attorney Busisiwe Mkhwebane applied for an urgent license to appeal a Pretoria High Court decision that overturned her report on the illegality of Ramaphosa’s CR17 campaign fundraising.
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Advocate Thembeka Ngcukaitobi was arguing against Mkhwebane’s conclusion that the president benefited directly from the CR17 campaign, so she found the necessary reasons for him to have to disclose the funds to Parliament.
“The report cannot be justified with reference to the facts. It is clear that it obtained a result, the facts were inconvenient, it discarded them, it wanted to reach a result. That simply should not be tolerated.”
Mkhwebane’s lawyers objected to the submissions, saying that she was within her mandate and that she functions as a public protector to investigate Ramaphosa’s wrongdoing.
“The court is free to examine certain aspects of the report that it believes were not good, but it does not remove the entire report and everything in it, and each finding or corrective action. It is open to this court to look at those aspects.”
The case was postponed until sentencing.
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