Public Protector to fork out for Estina case after losing yet another court battle | IOL News

Pretoria - The High Court in Pretoria on Thursday granted another cost order against Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane. She has been ordered to personally pay 7.5 percent of the litigation costs for both the Democratic Alliance and the Council for the Advancement of the South African Constitution .

Judge Ronel Tolmay also ordered that Mkhwebane in her official capacity must pay 85 percent of legal costs for both the DA and CASAC. The political party and civil society organisation approached the court over her report on the Gupta-linked Estina Dairy Farm project. The parties argued in October last year that Mkhwebane had not acted prudently in her probe and had failed to investigate senior politicians implicated in corruption and money-laundering that sank the agriculture project.

The DA believes Mkhwebane's investigative report of the farm project was a white-wash as implicated politicians were never interviewed and thus escaped scrutiny. African News Agency

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