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Public protector, Speaker threaten each other over motion of inquiry legal costs

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The public protector and National Assembly Speaker Thandi Modise are threatening each other with punitive costs as they battle over the motion for an inquiry into Busisiwe Mkhwebane’s fitness for office.

Mkhwebane was the first to make a threat in a letter she sent Modise via her lawyers last Thursday, accusing her of unlawful actions and insists she acts on several of her demands.

“The State attorney warned advocate Mkhwebane that should she persist with her application for urgent relief in its present form on 17 March 2020, the Speaker will request that the application be dismissed with punitive costs on the ground that her persistence will entail the incurrence of fruitless and wasteful expenditure of public funds,” Modise’s spokesperson Moloto Mothapo said yesterday.

The latest drama has been sparked by Modise’s acceptance of the revised motion tabled by DA chief whip Natasha Mazzone on February 21 after withdrawing the one she submitted in December. Apart from insisting on Modise to suspend the removal process, they demanded that she furnishes Mkhwebane with reasons to declare the revised motion as being “in order”.

 

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