Legal lobby groups Freedom Under Law and the Helen Suzman Foundation’s urgent high court case to have Shaun Abrahams suspended has been dismissed as "ill-advised and unreasonable". The High Court in Pretoria threw out the case, saying it was not urgent. Calls for Abraham to resign or be suspended by President Jacob Zuma came in thick and fast after he announced on October 11 that the National Prosecuting Authority had charged Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan for fraud, only to withdraw the charges weeks later. The two lobby groups went to the court urgently, asking it to set aside Zuma’s "failure" to suspend and initiate inquiries into whether Abrahams, acting head of the Priority Crimes Litigation Unit Torie Pretorius SC and Gauteng director of public prosecutions Sibongile Mzinyathi were fit for their posts.
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