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Impeached Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane wants her successor to be jailed for 15 months for contempt of court – because, she claims, Kholeka Gcaleka did not file a "proper" record of the watchdog body's decision not to pay her a R10 million gratuity.
In a supplementary affidavit and amended notice of motion filed in the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria on Monday, Mkhwebane sought orders that Gcaleka be found "guilty of the crime of contempt" and "sentenced to undergo 15 months imprisonment or such lesser sentence as the court may determine after hearing mitigating circumstances".
In apparent reference to the 15-month jail term imposed on former president Jacob Zuma after he was convicted of contempt of the Constitutional Court for defying its order that he appear before the State Capture Inquiry, Mkhwebane stated: "It will be demonstrated that the transgressions in this matter are similar or far worse than in the Zuma matter".
