{"id":128129,"date":"2016-06-26T08:23:11","date_gmt":"2016-06-26T06:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=128129"},"modified":"2016-06-26T08:26:59","modified_gmt":"2016-06-26T06:26:59","slug":"big-names-lined-up-to-replace-thuli-madonsela-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/128129\/big-names-lined-up-to-replace-thuli-madonsela-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Big names lined up to replace Thuli Madonsela: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A number of high-profile people have been nominated to replace Thuli Madonsela as public protector, the Sunday Times has reported.<\/p>\n<p>Madonsela\u2019s term ends in October, with the deadline for nominations and applications for her replacement having closed on Friday, 24 June.<\/p>\n<p>The Sunday Times reported that the names of 72 people are on the list, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Thabo Mbeki &#8211; former president of South Africa;<\/li>\n<li>Gra\u00e7a Machel &#8211; widow of Nelson Mandela and politician;<\/li>\n<li>Vusi Pikoli &#8211; former national director of public prosecutions;<\/li>\n<li>Gerrie Nel &#8211; advocate and prosecutor for the National Prosecuting Authority;<\/li>\n<li>Judge Siraj Desai of the High Court in Cape Town;<\/li>\n<li>Mojanku Gumbi &#8211; advocate and former legal adviser to Thabo Mbeki;<\/li>\n<li>Dumisa Ntsebeza SC &#8211; advocate;<\/li>\n<li>Dali Mpofu SC &#8211; advocate, and EFF national chairman;<\/li>\n<li>Kaajal Ramjathan-Keogh &#8211; a human rights lawyer and the director of the Southern Africa Litigation Centre;<\/li>\n<li>Pierre de Vos &#8211; University of Cape Town constitutional law expert.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The paper reported that both Mbeki and Gra\u00e7a Machel, have indicated that they are not available for the position.<\/p>\n<p>Retired Constitutional Court justice Dikgang Moseneke and former finance minister, Nhlanhla Nene, were also mentioned by the Sunday Times.<\/p>\n<p>Citing Makhosi Khoza, an ANC MP and chairman of the ad hoc committee, it said that Nene and Moseneke were eligible for consideration.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In terms of the procedure, their nominations were in time. So I&#8217;m going to consider them if they accept by Monday and submit their CVs. I will accept their nominations because they were in on time,&#8221; said Khoza.<\/p>\n<p>Khoza said that the names of at least five former and two serving MPs have also been put forward, along with several sitting judges.<\/p>\n<p>The final list of candidates is set to be released on Tuesday, 28 June.<\/p>\n<p><em>Read the full report in the 26 June 2016 edition of the Sunday Times.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on politics<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/127693\/madonsela-among-21-nominated-for-public-protector-post\/\" target=\"_blank\">Madonsela among 21 nominated for Public Protector post<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/116470\/60-of-tenders-are-corrupt-in-some-way-deputy-public-protector\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>60% of tenders are corrupt in some way: Deputy Public Protector<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/126019\/madonsela-wants-money-to-investigate-the-gupta-family\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Madonsela wants money to investigate the Gupta family<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/119439\/how-much-money-thuli-madonsela-needs-to-do-her-job\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>How much money Thuli Madonsela needs to do her job<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A number of high-profile people have been nominated to replace Thuli Madonsela as public protector, the Sunday Times has reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":74874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872,23],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-128129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-government","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128129"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128137,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128129\/revisions\/128137"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}