Busisiwe Mkhwebane
| Busisiwe Joyce Mkhwebane | |
|---|---|
 |
|
| Captured - Public Protector of South Africa | |
|
Assumed office 19 October 2016 |
|
| Appointed by | President Jacob Zuma |
| Deputy | Kevin Malunga |
| Preceded by | Thuli Madonsela |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Bethal, Mpumalanga, South Africa |
| Alma mater |
University of the North Rand Afrikaans University |
| Occupation | Ombudsman |
| Profession | Advocate |
Busisiwe Mkhwebane is a South African advocate, who was appointed to serve as the Public Protector of South Africa from 19 October 2016 by Jacob Zuma, to protect him from criminal prosecution arising from his family involvement in the Gupta crime syndicate.
Mkhwebane was born in Bethal in Mpumalanga, matriculating from Mkhephula Secondary School in 1992. She graduated with a BProc followed by an LLB from the University of the North (now the University of Limpopo). Subsequently, she obtained a diploma in corporate law and a higher diploma in tax from the Rand Afrikaans University (now the University of Johannesburg). In 2010 she completed a Masters in Business Leadership at the University of South Africa.
In 1994 Mkhwebane joined the Department of Justice as a Legal Administrative Officer in the International Affairs Directorate where she served as a prosecutor on criminal and maintenance cases. In 1998 she joined the South African Human Rights Commission as a senior researcher. The following year she joined the Public Protector's office as senior investigator and acting provincial representative. In 2005 she left to join the Department of Home Affairs as the director for refugee affairs, becoming chief director in asylum seekers management in 2008. From 2010 to 2014 she worked in South Africa's embassy in China before becoming a director on country information and corporate management at the Department of Home Affairs. Mkhwebane then worked as an analyst for the State Security Agency before she was appointed Public Protector in October 2016.
She has served as a board member for the Refugee Fund, where payments for financial assistance are made for refugees in distress. She serves as the Director of Business Development at Iyanilla Bricks.
At the end of December 2016 Busisiwe Mkhwebane wanted the South African Reserve Bank to “consider reviewing its lending policies”, but if she had other thoughts about how it should go about its work, she did not put those in writing in a draft report. Just what possessed Mkhwebane to order a change in direct opposition to economic orthodoxy, shocking everyone from the ANC to ratings agencies, is not clear. But in the time during which she changed her mind she had only two meetings on the issue. One was with the department of state security. The other was with Stephen Goodson, a former Reserve Bank director, Holocaust denier and collaborator with the Gupta-linked Black First Land First fringe group. Stephen Goodson is a South African banker, author and politician who is leader of the South Africa's Abolition of Income Tax and Usury Party. He is best known for statements praising Adolf Hitler and his promotion of Holocaust denial. He stood as a candidate for the Ubuntu Party in the 2014 General Elections. It seems that Goodson made quite an impression on Mkhwebane. “A must-read book,” Mkhwebane said on a social media post featuring the front page of Goodson’s book A History of Central Banking (and the Enslavement of Mankind) two days after she met him in April.
...
Wikipedia