A ‘real leader’ would step aside, say lobby groups in Shaun Abrahams case
A "real leader" in the position of National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) head Shaun Abrahams would stand aside and allow an inquiry to clear his name, counsel for the legal lobby groups seeking Abrahams’s suspension said in court on Thursday. A full bench of three judges — led by Gauteng Judge President Dunstan Mlambo — was constituted to hear the case about whether Abrahams and two other senior prosecutors should be suspended after the NPA charged Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan for fraud, only for Abrahams to withdraw the charges a few weeks later. Legal lobby groups Freedom Under Law and the Helen Suzman Foundation went to the High Court in Pretoria urgently, asking it to set aside President Jacob Zuma’s "failure" to act on this score: to suspend Abrahams, acting head of the Priority Crimes Litigation Unit Torie Pretorius SC and Gauteng director of public prosecutions Sibongile Mzinyathi; and to order that an inquiry be established into whether they are fit and proper for their po...
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