The firing of discredited Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane on 13 September is being lauded by President Cyril Ramaphosa's supporters as a victory in his campaign for zero-tolerance of corruption in the African National Congress (ANC)...

' On 9 June Ramaphosa sacked the Zuma-appointed Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane who had sent him a questionnaire on 'Farmgate' as it is now popularly known...

Public protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane another Zuma ally is launching her own investigation into the matter...

In early 2021 Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane found Bredell guilty of breaching the Executive Ethics Code for having instructed the chair of the George municipality to halt the appointment of the town's director of corporate services...

There have been growing signs of the changing voting landscape within the party starting in March when it split on a parliamentary vote to investigate pro-Zuma Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane with 171 ANC MPs backing the impeachment probe and 59 abstaining (AC Vol 62 No 6 The plot against Cyril)...

Last month the ruling party divided over a vote to impeach the Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane...

And then he secured a majority of the ANC's parliamentary caucus to back the impeachment of Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane (AC Vol 62 No 7 Ramaphosa rallies ANC against the Zuma-Magashule axis)...

Magashule lost a key battle insiders say when he broke ranks a few days earlier with the party's top six officials – of which he is one – and denied their right to instruct the party caucus in Parliament to vote with the opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) by endorsing a multi-party investigation into pro-Zuma Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane...