JSE-listed Phumelela Gaming and Leisure on Tuesday 30 July won a court interdict preventing Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane’s wide-ranging remedial action on the horse racing industry from being implemented while her report is taken on judicial review.
found the corporatisation of the horse racing industry, resulting from a 1997 Gauteng government decision, had failed society and helped enrich Phumelela through the levies it receives from bookmakers.The process of corporatisation of the industry was not in the public interest at all. It better served the rich and the elite in the society thus making the rich, richer,” Mkhwebane observed in the report.
Fresh off the Constitutional Court ruling that Mkhwebane personally pay 15% of the Reserve Bank’s legal costs, Phumelela is calling for the public protector to personally pay 25% of any legal costs ordered against her office. It continues: “Phumelela contends that the public protector’s remedial action is unlawful and unconstitutional in three main respects: first — it unlawfully interferes with parliamentary legislative authority; second — it unlawfully interferes with provincial legislative authority; and third, it requires amendments to provincial legislation, and thus again unlawfully interferes with provincial legislative authority. This kind of remedial action has previously been declared to be unlawful.
gregnicolson The BLF could win a court case against the PP ! She obviously isn’t in the business of winning
gregnicolson Horse racing is a Caucasian man's game. Heavy cases are against WMC💁
RaymondSuttner gregnicolson And her head is still ringing from the previous snottie she got. She must be eating headache tablets like smarties.
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gregnicolson Here she correctly and logically did not oppose the interdict. One has to consider why she chose to act differently in the case of CR.
gregnicolson And another...
gregnicolson Time Moegoe Bane be scratched! Clever that🤣🤣