Bruce's List
The NPA does Zuma’s dirty work
Ag shame ... Zuma’s just too scared to fire Pravin on his own
Bruce’s List: A daily guide to informed reads. So it’s crunch time. Finance minister Pravin Gordhan will either present his medium-term budget policy statement on October 26 or not. Yesterday he was summonsed to court on November 2 on a blatantly spurious and politically motivated charge of fraud by an already hopelessly compromised National Prosecuting Authority (NPA). Its head, Shaun Abrahams, bumbled his way through a press conference yesterday trying to sound like a leader but coming off more like an oik. When he tried to sound Churchillian “the days of disrespecting the NPA are over” no-one but the staffers behind him believed him. This morning the disrespect for the NPA is deeper than ever. Abrahams is a puppet who claims he wasn’t interfered with politically — that’s because by the time he became head of the NPA no-one any longer had to interfere with him. He knows his job. Why else would he be pursuing Gordhan and not Jacob Zuma? Clearly, the fraud charge against Gordhan — f...
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