Despite a series of changes at the top of the Hawks and NPA, Paul O’Sullivan says there are still a number of corrupt lieutenants who are intent on serving their old bosses and continuing the rot at these organisations.
The changes rendered by President Cyril Ramaphosa since he scraped into power at Nasrec will be reduced to mere window dressing unless he can reconstitute the anti-corruption institutions currently powerless to act against the political elite.
He’s an unlikely hero is Shaun Abrahams, the now-disgraced former head of the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA). But Abrahams may inadvertently have done the country and the currency a world of good by getting sacked amidst the emerging markets currency crisis.
South Africa’s famous forensic investigator Paul O’Sullivan has joined thousands of “the good, honest cops” in celebrating today’s Constitutional Court judgement which ejected the tainted head of the country’s National Prosecuting Authority.
BUSA President Sipho Pityana has welcomed today’s Constitutional Court decision that effectively removes Shaun Abrahams as head of the NPA – but has called for a fully transparent process around the appointment of his successor.
In Shaun Abrahams’ case, he was catapulted four levels from the NPA’s backbench of senior state advocates. Glynnis Breytenbach explains: “That’s like taking a child who has learned to ride a bicycle with training wheels and giving him a jumbo jet, and expecting everything to be OK.”
Former South African President Jacob Zuma’s corruption case was adjourned until June 8, signalling that a criminal trial may be delayed until at least the end of the year.
Forensics For Justice has issued a sworn statement as part of its call for a case to be brought against top officials in SA’s law enforcement structures.
News24 can reveal that career state advocate Gerrie Nel has given the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) 24 hours’ notice of his resignation.
Sara Gon thinks the SAPS is in crisis; under-trained, ill-trained and under-manned, particularly in public order policing, due to the sheer incompetence of Jackie Selebi.