Busisiwe Mkhwebane to Thandi Modise: 'I'll take you to court'

In a strongly-worded, 12-page letter public protector Bessie Mkhwebane has threatened to take national assembly speaker Thandi Modise and, indeed, parliament, to court if the inquiry into her fitness to hold office is not stopped.

Impeached former public protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane appears in the Pretoria high court. File photo
Impeached former public protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane appears in the Pretoria high court. File photo (Esa Alexander)

In a strongly-worded, 12-page letter public protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane has threatened to take national assembly speaker Thandi Modise and, indeed, parliament, to court if the inquiry into her fitness to hold office is not stopped.

In the letter, obtained by the Sunday Times this week, a seemingly outraged Mkhwebane accuses Modise of not only being in breach of section 194 of the constitution, but of violating rules of parliament when she referred a motion to test Mkhwebane's fitness to hold office to the justice committee.

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