This, after the currently suspended Public Protector (PP), Busisiwe Mkhwebane, had fired her senior representative - Hamilton Samuel - two years ago, after he was suspended for months.

Samuel, who is also a member of the Public Servant Association (PSA), told OFM News at the time that he was served with a dismissal letter at the end of 2020 and he immediately challenged the decision, as the PSA refereed an unfair dismissal dispute to the CCMA.

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Last week Friday, the CCMA Commissioner discovered that Mkhwebane had failed to discharge the onus to prove that Samuel had breached a rule in respect of the charges presented against him. As a result, his dismissal was found to be substantively unfair.

According to the statement issued by the PSA, Mkhwebane's office was then ordered to reinstate Samuel as the Provincial Head in the Free State and renumerate his back pay of R1,5 million before 4 July 2022.

OFM News previously reported that Samuel was charged with several allegations of misconduct.

The charges followed shortly after he had written to Parliament in 2020, requesting an investigation into the conduct of the Public Protector as well as pointing out financial mismanagement at the institution.

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