The Mail & Guardian welcomed Thursday's ruling by Judge Ntsikelelo Poswa of the Gauteng North High Court overturning Public Protector Lawrence Mushwana’s report on the Oilgate scandal.
The M&G took Mushwana’s report, widely held to have been a “whitewash”, on review under the Promotion of Administrative Justice Act following its release in July 2005. Judge Poswa heard the matter in November 2007 and gave judgement on Thursday.
Among the more odious aspects of Mushwana’s report were that he refused to pursue the money trail to the ANC, claiming that this was private and outside his mandate, and that he ignored clear evidence of wrongdoing relating to aspects of the allegations that he did investigate.
The M&G revealed in May 2005 how R11-million in taxpayers’ money had flowed from PetroSA, the state oil company, to the ANC through empowerment oil trader Imvume Management.
Source: Mail & Guardian
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