I'm not here to protect President – Mkhwebane

Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane says her job is not to protect President Jacob Zuma, and that he will be probed if his actions amount to misconduct, according to a Mail & Guardian report. ‘If the President has committed misconduct or there is a service failure from the President, the President will be investigated,’ Mkhwebane said from the sidelines of a community meeting in Khayelitsha yesterday. ‘I am here to defend and to implement the Constitution. And I need to categorically state that the Constitution provides for the rights of everyone. So, I am not here to protect one person. My role is to protect the public. So I am not defending the President.’ She would not comment on Zuma’s application for a judicial review of Thuli Madonsela’s State of Capture report, because her office had not yet been privy to the grounds for the application.