Arguments in the case against prosecutions head Shaun Abrahams and two other prosecutors got under way before a full bench of the High Court in Pretoria, on Thursday. Lobby groups Freedom Under Law and the Helen Suzman Foundation want Abrahams and advocates Torie Pretorius and Sibongile Mzinyathi suspended pending an inquiry into their fitness to hold office. The two organisations base their argument on the manner in which fraud charges were preferred and later withdrawn against Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan in October. But first‚ the pressure groups had to convince the court that the matter was urgent and that Zuma had "failed to act". After the application by the two organisations was launched earlier in November‚ Zuma wrote a letter to the three prosecutors and gave them until November 28 to give him reasons for not suspending them.
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