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News24Wire reports that the Public Servants Association (PSA) says the Office of the Public Protector (OPP) should refrain from victimising its members who speak out against wrongdoing.
The union was commenting after a Labour Court judge overturned the decision of Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane to dismiss two senior staffers. The staffers, executive manager Ponatshego Mogaladi and chief investigator Lesedi Sekele, successfully approached the court after Mkhwebane altered lesser sanctions imposed by the chairperson of a disciplinary process and fired the two employees instead. Reacting to the court outcome, the PSA said Mkhwebane’s office suppressed employees’ rights to fair labour practices. “The Office of the Public Protector (OPP) needs to rid itself of maladministration and refrain from victimising the union’s elected shop stewards and members, owing to them speaking out against wrongs in the office,” the union said in a statement. The disciplinary hearing of a third suspended union member has not yet been concluded, according to the union. The PSA repeated its call for the process to remove the Public Protector from office to be expedited “as the Public Protector is a major stumbling block preventing the OPP from salvaging its reputation and discharging its constitutional duties.”
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard at The Citizen
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