{"id":134280,"date":"2016-08-24T07:39:01","date_gmt":"2016-08-24T05:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=134280"},"modified":"2016-08-24T07:39:01","modified_gmt":"2016-08-24T05:39:01","slug":"committee-close-to-naming-new-public-protector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/134280\/committee-close-to-naming-new-public-protector\/","title":{"rendered":"Committee close to naming new Public Protector"},"content":{"rendered":"

Parliament’s ad hoc committee tasked with finding a new Public Protector is on Wednesday expected to decide on a candidate to replace Thuli Madonsela.<\/p>\n

Last week, the committee whittled the 14 remaining candidates down to five. In a relatively short meeting, MPs called for certain candidates to \u201cfall\u201d.<\/p>\n

Candidates including Madonsela\u2019s current deputy Kevin Malunga and former NPA asset forfeiture unit head Willie Hofmeyr did not make the cut.<\/p>\n

The five candidates are judges Siraj Desai and Sharise Weiner, advocates Busisiwe Mkhwebane, Muvhango Lukhaimane, and Professor Bongani Majola.<\/p>\n

Whoever receives the most support will be tabled for endorsement in the National Assembly by August 31.<\/p>\n

Madonsela\u2019s seven-year term ends in mid-October.<\/p>\n

News24<\/a><\/p>\n

More on the PP<\/h3>\n

5 candidates shortlisted for public protector job<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Public Protector interviews run into the early morning<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

This is the final shortlist for the position of Public Protector<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Parliament’s ad hoc committee tasked with finding a new Public Protector is on Wednesday expected to decide on a candidate to replace Thuli Madonsela.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":27932,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-134280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-active"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134280","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\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134282,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134280\/revisions\/134282"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}