{"id":148157,"date":"2016-12-19T09:04:25","date_gmt":"2016-12-19T07:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=148157"},"modified":"2016-12-19T09:04:25","modified_gmt":"2016-12-19T07:04:25","slug":"obsessed-mkhwebane-targets-madonselas-staff-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/148157\/obsessed-mkhwebane-targets-madonselas-staff-report\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Obsessed&#8221; Mkhwebane targets Madonsela&#8217;s staff: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane\u00a0has fired her predecessor&#8217;s selected chief of staff &#8211; and reportedly threatened to pull support for a conference that wanted to invite and honour the work Thuli Madonsela\u00a0did.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report by the<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news24.com\/SouthAfrica\/News\/busi-hates-on-thuli-20161217-2\"> City Press<\/a><\/strong>, Mkhwebane this past week fired Madonsela&#8217;s former\u00a0chief of staff, Bonginkosi Dhlamini, saying that his skills did not match the position.<\/p>\n<p>The firing happened not long after Dhlamini challenged Mkhwebane over a matter regarding the\u00a0African Ombudsman and Mediators\u2019 Association (Aoma) conference which was held in South Africa in early November.<\/p>\n<p>According to the paper, citing sources close to the conference, Mkhwebane threatened to have the conference banned from being held in South Africa if Madonsela was invited to it.<\/p>\n<p>Madonsela was to be honoured at the event for her \u201coutstanding and exemplary service\u201d in office. However, the certificate was ultimately collected by her former deputy.<\/p>\n<p>The source said that Madonsela was informed by her Aoma colleagues that Mkhwebane made the threats.<\/p>\n<p>Emails sent to Mkhwebane by Dhlamini show that he challenged the Public Protector over the matter, saying he would take it up with Parliament. He also reportedly called her heartless, cruel and unreasonable, and said she was obsessed with Madonsela.<\/p>\n<p>According to the City Press, Dhlamini and three others who worked in Madonsela&#8217;s private office were key players in the State Capture report. The paper reported that all involved have been moved to other departments.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<a title=\"Permalink to State capture case is with the NPA and the Hawks\" href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/144771\/state-capture-case-is-with-the-npa-and-the-hawks\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">State capture case is with the NPA and the Hawks<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane has fired her predecessor&#8217;s selected chief of staff &#8211; and reportedly threatened to pull support for a conference that wanted to invite and honour the work Thuli Madonsela did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":140899,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-148157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-active"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148157","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=148157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148159,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148157\/revisions\/148159"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}