{"id":337095,"date":"2019-08-27T11:09:39","date_gmt":"2019-08-27T09:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=337095"},"modified":"2019-08-27T11:09:39","modified_gmt":"2019-08-27T09:09:39","slug":"south-african-lawmakers-seek-guidance-on-public-protectors-removal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/337095\/south-african-lawmakers-seek-guidance-on-public-protectors-removal\/","title":{"rendered":"South African lawmakers seek guidance on public protector&#8217;s removal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South African lawmakers have asked parliament\u2019s rules committee to set out the procedures that need to be followed to fire the nation\u2019s anti-graft ombudsman.<\/p>\n<p>The call for clarity made Tuesday by parliament\u2019s justice committee comes amid calls for the legislature to fire Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane after the nation\u2019s top court ruled she lied under oath.<\/p>\n<p>She has accused President Cyril Ramaphosa of misconduct, a finding he is contesting in court.<\/p>\n<p>Mkhwebane denies wrongdoing and accuses her detractors of seeking to undermine her investigations.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/336537\/ramaphosa-outlines-plans-to-get-south-africas-economy-back-on-track\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ramaphosa outlines plans to get South Africa\u2019s economy back on track<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South African lawmakers have asked parliament\u2019s rules committee to set out the procedures that need to be followed to fire the nation\u2019s anti-graft ombudsman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":332763,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-337095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337095","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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337095"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":337097,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337095\/revisions\/337097"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}