Public Protector Advocate Kholeka Gcaleka has called for the amendment of the law to make it a criminal offence of contempt to intentionally ignore her remedial action.
Public Protector Advocate Kholeka Gcaleka wants government officials who deliberately do not comply with her binding remedial action be held in contempt of her office.
Gcaleka made the proposal during the religious leaders' winter school hosted by the Stellenbosch University’s Faculty of Theology on Thursday.
“I have therefore proposed through the amendment of our legislation – the Public Protector Act, and I continue to advocate, that the deliberate non-implementation of the Public Protector’s remedial action should attract a sanction in the form of contempt of the Public Protector,” she said.
According to Gcaleka, this is not a radical proposition but a logical consequence of what the Constitutional Court has already declared: that the Public Protector’s remedial action is binding and that failure to implement it is unlawful.
