The Gauteng High Court in Pretoria has blamed impeached Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane's erstwhile office for delays in the hearing of her urgent challenge to the non-payment of a R10 million gratuity she says she is owed - and ordered it to pay her costs on a punitive scale.
Judge Colleen Collis was unhappy the Public Protector South Africa (PPSA) has thus far failed to file the rule 53 record of documents that underpinned its decision not to give Mkhwebane the R10 million gratuity typically paid to Public Protectors who vacate office, as well as its reasons for that decision.