Freedom Under Law, Helen Suzman Foundation in bid to ‘protect machinery of state’
Attorneys acting for Freedom Under Law and the Helen Suzman Foundation served an urgent application on Sunday to have the recent criminal charges against Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan set aside. This is after the two organisations invited National Director of Public Prosecutions Shaun Abrahams to furnish them with more information about the charges‚ or to withdraw them voluntarily‚ which he did not do, despite being given a week’s notice‚ they said. "The charges are obviously without foundation. Relating to the early retirement and subsequent re-employment of Ivan Pillay‚ a former deputy commissioner of the South African Revenue Service (SARS), they are completely invalid‚ both legally and on any plausible reading of the facts," the two groups said in a statement. "At best‚ the charges reveal dizzying incompetence at the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) and the Hawks. At worst‚ they confirm our suspicions: that the criminal justice system is being undermined to serve particula...
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