Mkhwebane would not hear of Gupta links to Estina: witness

Suspended public protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane was deaf to repeated pleas from senior staff to consider reports that the Gupta family had pocketed millions from the Vrede dairy farm project in her investigation into the scam, a witness told the section 194 inquiry into her removal on Thursday.

Reginald Ndou, former executive manager for the provincial investigation unit in the office of the public protector, said not including information relating to the R280-million project in the cache of emails would render the report vulnerable to review.