The former Public Protector, Busisiwe Mkhwebane, will leave the office without a pension.
This is the implication of her being impeached by Parliament.
The National Assembly earlier on Monday voted in favour of Mkhwebane being removed from office, based on the report of the Section 194 committee that upheld the charges of misconduct and incompetence against her.
Mkhwebane was suspended last year, pending the Section 194 inquiry. Besides her pension, benefits to Mkhwebane include a gratuity of several millions.
When her predecessor, Thuli Madonsela, left office in 2016, her gratuity was in the region of R7, 5 million.
The National Assembly had to develop its own rules for the process, seeing that the Constitution does not specify how the removal should be dealt with.
The Executive Secretary of the Council for the Advancement of the South African Constitution, Lawson Naidoo says this removal by Parliament is an important step in the maturing of the democracy.
“It’s about parliament playing its proper constitutional role. It is mandated to deal with these very serious matters and you know it needs to be able to do that. And as I have said I hope in future it will be able to do so more efficiently and not a dragged out process we have seen now…but it is about parly exercising its authority, its about holding people to account to their constitutional mandates. So I think its an important step forward.”