Political analyst and constitutional expert Professor Shadrack Gutto says he does not think the high court ruling was damning.

He said Ramaphosa won on a technicality that no timelines were given by the public protector for the remedial action.

“It is a very narrow so-called victory, it was almost a pyrrhic victory,” Gutto told Fin24.

He warned that the office of the public protector should still be respected, despite Mkhwebane’s several losses in court, in recent weeks.

“If we this this public protector to destroy this office, we are destroying the basis of our democracy,” Gutto commented.