Imagine being fired from your job for doing it terribly, then expecting to be paid R10 million rands as gratuity for doing that job badly. Well, that’s exactly what disgraced former public protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane tried doing before the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria dismissed her bid on Wednesday.

A gratuity fee is the fee given to an individual to thank them for their service. Before her, other public protectors had received theirs, but because she was unceremoniously removed from office, Mkhwebane was not offered one as she was impeached before she could finish her term as public protector.

She filed an urgent application in March challenging the decision. The case was initially removed from the urgent roll but was later re-enrolled and heard in August before Judge Omphemetse Mooki delivered the ruling yesterday. Mooki stated that it was “absurd” for an employer to pay a gratuity to an employee who “left the office in disgrace.”

In response to the ruling, Mkhwebane, as usual, suggested that this was a plot against her. “Such relentless pursuit of costs paints a picture of choreographed persecution, where legal costs and proceedings are used systematically to drain resources and morale,” she tweeted.

This isn’t Mkhwebane’s only recent court loss, though. Earlier this month, the Supreme Court of Appeal struck off the roll, with costs, her appeal against the Western Cape Division of the High Court’s dismissal of an application to remove the chair of the historic impeachment inquiry against her. Mkhwebane, who is now a member of parliament for the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), didn’t take the ruling well, launching a racist attack against South Africans of Indian descent. She accused Judge Visvanathan Ponnan of “noticeable arrogance and dismissiveness throughout the proceedings.”

In the tweet, which is still up, she said her struggles involved “key figures, predominantly of Indian descent” who had positioned themselves as her “persecutors.”🙄

“These individuals include Pravin Gordhan, Bawa (Evidence Leader), Adhikarie (Chief Legal Adviser of Parliament), Hassan Ebrahim (so-called expert witness), Ivan Pillay (Witness), and Fatima Ebrahim (Legal Adviser of Parliament). Judge Poonan’s attitude further underscores the challenges and biases I have faced in my quest for justice,” said Mkhwebane. Her comments have, rightfully, angered many, and she offered a lukewarm apology and the attention of the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC).

At the end of the day, Mkhwebane is a desperate has-been who resorts to bizarre social media rants when she doesn’t get her way. Maybe if she had done a better job as public protector, we’d take her seriously, but for now, we’d all do well to stop entertaining her.