Mkhwebane terminates instructions to legal team
J2HANN(S%UR* - Suspended 3ublic 3rotector %usisiwe Mkhwebane’s legal team said Friday effectively marked the end of the road for it as her office had indicated on March 1 it would no longer pay her legal fees after
March 31.
³:e had hoped between March 1 and now there would be some miracle which would resolve the impasse caused by the letter of the acting public protector, advocate .holeka *caleka, that they would no longer be able fund her legal &linton National Airport in /ittle Rock took shelter in bathrooms and were ordered to stay there until 3 45pm.
Aerial footage showed several rooftops were torn from homes in /ittle Rock and nearby %enton. There were no immediate reports of inMuries.
Nearly 70 000 customers in Arkansas were out of power on Friday afternoon, according to SRZHURXWDJH XV, which tracks outages.
About 32 000 were without power in neighbouring 2klahoma, where wind gusts between 50 and 60mph fueled fast-moving grass fires.
3eople were urged to evacuate homes in far northeast 2klahoma &ity, and troopers shut down portions of Interstate 35 near the suburb of (dmond.
More outages were reported in .ansas, Missouri and Texas.
The ‘intense supercell thunderstorms
³2ur instructions are terminated.´ He said when it became clear Mkhwebane would not be able to give the team instructions, it could not say no to other work.
However &ommittee &hairperson 4ubudile 'yantyi said he hoped a solution to the funding problem would be found at the weekend. team,´ Mkhwebane’s counsel 'ali Mpofu told the committee conducting a Section 1 4 inquiry into her fitness to hold office. Mpofu said Mkhwebane had not been able to give her legal team further instructions to continue beyond this point.