Johannesburg - Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane's controversial CIEX report has been set aside by the High Court in Pretoria on Friday.

Th Public Protector released the report in June last year and caused an uproar among various institutions as it called for an amendment of the Constitution.

In her report Mkhwebane had ordered that the Absa bank should pay back R1.125 billion that it received from the South Africa Reserve Bank (SARB) as part of a apartheid-era bail out in the early nineties.

The bailout was given to Bankorp, which was later acquired by Absa. Mkhwebane felt the bank needed to take responsibility for paying back the money.

Her report also recommended that Parliament should look into amending the role of the Reserve Bank as stated in the Constitution - a recommendation that angered many including the SARB.