Court finds Mkhwebane and public protector’s office must pay Estina costs

Public protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane has been ordered to pay another legal costs order in her personal capacity, after the Pretoria high court on Thursday found that she “failed the people of SA” in her invalid investigation on the Gupta-linked Estina dairy farm project.

Her spokesperson, Oupa Segalwe, says she will seek to appeal the ruling, not because it could “bankrupt” her, but “on a matter of principle”. Gifted to Estina in 2013 under a free 99-year lease by the Free State agriculture department, the Vrede farm was intended to empower 100 black dairy farmers. Instead, the GuptaLeaks revealed how at least R30m paid to the Guptas via the farm allegedly ended up funding the family’s lavish Sun City wedding in 2013.

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