This comes amid claims by insiders that the commission is attempting to use a draft handbook – a document containing the code of conduct for commissioners – to legitimise his suspension.
Botha was suspended on August 6 after he had made remarks to a colleague about CGE commissioner Nomasonto Mazibuko’s albinism and said that the commission’s chairperson, Tamara Mathebula, lacked backbone, during a break at the CGE’s virtual plenary session on July 30.
