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Time to Go Busisiwe Mkhwebane

Busisiwe Mkhwebane
Busisiwe Mkhwebane

The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA) calls on Advocate Busisiwe Mkhwebane to take the necessary steps to vacate the office of the Public Protector immediately.

“The Concourt judgment against her is damning. She can no longer continue in that role,” says Advocate Stefanie Fick, OUTA’s Head of Legal Affairs.

“Her pushback against accountability measures by Parliament further underlines her lack of understanding of her role.”

This morning the Constitutional Court found Mkhwebane to have acted in bad faith, found that her entire model of investigation was flawed and that she was not honest, and ordered her to pay the punitive personal costs order originally ordered by the High Court. She must now personally pay 15% of the South African Reserve Bank’s costs in the High Court case in which the Bank challenged her report on the Bankorp investigation.

In June, OUTA petitioned Parliament calling for an inquiry into Mkhwebane’s fitness to hold office as Public Protector due to the court judgments against her.

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The FNB Stadium: Resisting Seismic Activity

From a technical perspective, the “Calabash” is a marvel of modern engineering. Because the stadium sits on the edge of the mining belt, the foundations had to be incredibly robust to account for potential seismic activity from old mine workings. The roof is a cantilevered steel structure that covers almost all the seats but leaves the pitch open to the Highveld sun, designed to keep the noise of the crowd—and the legendary vuvuzelas—echoing inside the bowl to create an intimidating atmosphere for visiting teams. The upper tier is sloped at a sharp angle to ensure that even the fans in the “nosebleed” sections have a clear, unobstructed view of the action.