Top ICC advisor Shamila Batohi named new NDPP
Respected International Criminal Court advisor Advocate Shamila Batohi is set to take the hot seat in February next year as NDPP.
Respected International Criminal Court advisor Advocate Shamila Batohi is set to take the hot seat in February next year as NDPP.
Instead South Africa has the snail-like, National Prosecuting Authority, in a dysfunctional but allegedly symbiotic relationship with an even more inept police force.
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.
President Cyril Ramaphosa has appointed Dr Silas Ramaite as Acting National Director of Public Prosecutions following this week’s ruling by the Constitutional Court on the appointment of Advocate Shaun Abrahams.
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.
Who replaces Shaun Abrahams will be key to what happens next. To launch SA’s version of Brazil’s Operation Car Wash, the country needs a hard-working, knowledgeable and forceful leader at the NPA.
McKinsey reached a settlement with Eskom and a unit of the prosecuting authority that will enable the management-consulting company to return the fee it earned on work for the electricity producer.
Standard & Poor’s has maintained South Africa’s sub-investment grade, but there has not been further slippage into sub-investment territory, which would make borrowing even more expensive than it is.
As the walls close in, Forensic for Justice’s Paul O’Sullivan feels it is now time, with Cyril Ramaphosa in power, that NPA head Shaun Abrahams leaves his position.