Public Protector Mkhwebane Clears Mbete, Muthambi, Joemat-Pettersson Of Corruption

Riyaz Patel

Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane has closed multiple investigations into several high-ranking politicians, saying claims against them were not substantiated.

Mkhwebane made the anouncement during a media briefing on the release of several new reports Thursday, including ones which clear corruption-accused former ministers Baleka Mbete, Faith Muthambi, and Tina Joemat-Pettersson of various corruption allegations investigated by her office.

Mbete has been cleared of allegations that she was bribed by Invictus Gold, a black economic empowerment consortium of mining company Gold Fields.

The former National Assembly speaker was accused of allegedly receiving a bribe in the form of share allocations amounting to R25m in Invictus Gold Limited “as well as the role the department of mineral resources played in the 2010 broad-based black economic empowerment concluded with Gold Fields Limited.”

Complaints regarding the breach of the Executive Code of Ethics by former minister of