"The committee will discuss the request and map out a way forward at the first possible opportunity when it resumes its work after the parliamentary recess period, provisionally set down for September 3. It is only after that the committee would be able to comment further on this matter," said Magwanishe.
Calls for Mkhwebane's removal have been mounting, with the SACP echoing the DA that parliament should look into her fitness - or lack thereof - to hold office.
The DA, particularly, has always been opposed to Mkhwebane's occupation of the office since her appointment three years ago.
The Helen Suzman Foundation is the latest organisation to make the same call, telling Modise: "Our courts have now repeatedly confirmed that the institution of the public protector and its constitutional promise and mission are now being continuously undermined and irreparably harmed by the incumbent bearer of that office."
Mkhwebane's future has came into the spotlight after she suffered back-to-back legal blows, losing both a Constitutional Court costs order in the SA Reserve Bank matter and an interdict by the North Gauteng High Court that suspended her remedial action against minister Pravin Gordhan.
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