The Myeni-O’Sullivan saga; new, gripping instalment
The manner in which O’Sullivan was treated – apparently on the orders of Her High-flying Former Supreme Majesty Dudu Myeni – reveal a despotic police state.
The manner in which O’Sullivan was treated – apparently on the orders of Her High-flying Former Supreme Majesty Dudu Myeni – reveal a despotic police state.
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.
Paul O’Sullivan says that under Shaun Abrahams, certain senior members of the NPA have become a part of the largest crime syndicate this country has ever seen.
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.
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.”
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.
Former South African President Jacob Zuma is considering seeking a review of the decision by prosecutors to make him stand trial on allegations including corruption and fraud.