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Today (Thursday) is D-day for a marathon session of a parliamentary ad hoc committee, which will sit from 7.45am to after midnight to interview 14 shortlisted candidates for the Public Protector position. The post is held for a non-renewable seven years. The multi-party committee has a deadline of August 31 to complete its work and report back to Parliament with its choice. The interviews will be broadcast live here.
Click on the candidates name to view their CV
1. Advocate Mhlaliseni Mthembu (7.45am – 8.45am)
Mthembu holds B Proc and LLB degrees from the University of KwaZulu-Natal. He has acted as a judge in the Eastern Cape and was commissioner of the Broadcasting Complaints Commission. He is also a judge in the Electoral Court and has previously applied for the Public Protector post.
2. Judge Sharise Weiner (8.50am - 9.50am)
Weiner was an advocate in Johannesburg and was a member of the bar in Lesotho, Wales and England. She specialised in corporate law and served as a commissioner of the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration part-time.
She also set up a non-profit organisation, Free the World, that distributes blankets to the needy.
3. Advocate Madibeng Mokoditwa (9.55am - 10.55am)
Mokoditwa has a BA degree from Unisa, a LLB degree of the University of Bophuthatswana and a LLM degree of the University of Johannesburg. Previously, he was an assessor in the high court in Johannesburg and served on the Special Pensions Review Board. In 2002 he was also on the shortlist for the Public Protector post.
4. Judge Siraj Desai (11am - 12pm)
Desai practised under Dullah Omar, South Africa’s first minister of justice post-1994. In 1996 he was appointed deputy chairperson of the Foundation for Human Rights in South Africa. He was the chairperson of the ANC branch in Woodstock, Cape Town, and was also one of the founding members of the National Association of Democratic Lawyers.
5. Professor Narnia Bohler-Muller (12.05pm - 13.05pm)
Bohler-Muller is executive director of the Africa Institute of South Africa at the Human Sciences Research Council. She is Adjunct Professor, at the Nelson R Mandela School of Law at the University of Fort Hare. She holds B Juris, LLB and LLM degrees from the University of Port Elizabeth (now the Nelson Mandela University) and an LLD degree from the University of Pretoria. She represented South Africa in the Brics group from 2013 to 2015.
6. Advocate Mamiki Goodman (Shai) (13.50pm - 14.50pm)
Goodman is executive manager of the National Gambling Board and has BA, LLB and LLM degrees from Unisa. She was previously deputy public defender under Advocate Lawrence Mushwana.
7. Busisiwe Mkhwebane (14.55pm - 15.55pm)
Mkwhebane is a director in the home affairs department. She has a B Proc and LLB from the University of the North and a diploma in corporate law, as well as a diploma in tax law from the University of Johannesburg. She has seven years’ experience as an investigator in the office of the Public Protector and has acted as provincial representative.
8. Jill Oliphant (4pm – 5pm)
Oliphant is a lawyer and a director of DMO Incorporated. She has a legal and financial background and has been involved in various investigations or public sector entities and the asset forfeiture unit. Oliphant also served on the executive committee of the Association of Business Administrators of South Africa.
9. Kaajal Ramjathan-Keogh (5.05pm - 6.05pm)
Ramjathan-Keogh serves as executive director of the Southern Africa Litigation Centre. She has a B Proc LLB from the University of Natal. She has worked for Lawyers for Human Rights and played a major role in the application to arrest Sudan president Omar al-Bashir during an African Union summit in South Africa.
10. Advocate Kevin Malunga (6.10pm – 7.10pm)
Malunga was appointed as deputy Public Protector in 2012. He has a BA degree in law from the University of Swaziland and an LLB from Unisa. He also has a master’s degree in law from Georgetown University in the United States. He has acted as chief of staff in the office of the chief justice. According to his CV, he has also acted as Public Protector 30 times. He was also a volunteer for Jim Doyle, governor of Wisconsin, in the US.
11. Willie Hofmeyr (7.45pm - 8.45pm)
Hofmeyr is deputy national director of public prosecutions and has a BA in economics, master’s degree in economic history, and an LLB from the University of Cape Town. He was formerly head of the asset forfeiture unit and an ANC MP. Hofmeyr was also involved in the drafting of the Constitution.
12. Muvhango Lukhaimane (8.50pm - 9.50pm)
Lukhaimane is adjudicator of the government’s pension fund. She has a B Juris degree from the University of Venda, an LLB from the University of Pretoria, an LLM from Unisa and a MBA from the University of the Witwatersrand. She has worked at Eskom’s pension and provident fund, as well as at Sanlam. Between 2005 and 2012 she held various positions in the state security department.
13. Professor Bongani Majola (9.55pm - 10.55pm)
Majola has an LLM degree from the University of Harvard and was a director of the Legal Resource Centre. Majola was dean of the faculty of law at the University of Limpopo between 1989 and 1996. He served as deputy chief prosecutor at the UN’s International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in 2003.
He was nominated for the position of Public Protector in 2002 but declined the nomination.
14. Advocate Nonkosi Cetywayo (11pm – midnight)
Cetywayo has BA and LLB degrees from the University of Cape Town and is currently the sheriff of the court in Bellville. Cetywayo was the head of Parliament’s office for Section 9 entities, which includes the office of the Public Protector. She was a legal adviser to Jacob Zuma in 2008 and 2009, when he was deputy president. She also worked on the revision of legislation on the private security industry for the intelligence ministry. Cetywayo was secretary of the ANC Women’s League in Langa.
