Ten days or we’ll see you in court: Zwelinzima Vavi’s ultimatum to NPA and Hawks
The South African Federation of Trade Unions (Saftu) has given the police and National Prosecuting Authority 10 days to act, after it laid charges of corruption and money laundering against Trillian directors‚ the Gupta brothers and Duduzane Zuma on Wednesday. Saftu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi said if the police did not come back to him in 10 days‚ he would go to court to ask for an order to compel the Hawks and the National Director of Public Prosecutions Shaun Abrahams to act. At a media briefing at Saftu’s offices in Johannesburg on Thursday‚ Vavi said a lack of significant action from the Directorate of Priority Crime Investigations (the Hawks) had prompted the federation to act. "We want to see what they are going to do. We will be watching them [the police] very carefully. Investigations should be under way. "We have given them 10 days‚ no more. They have been sitting with these files from Outa and others for months now‚" Vavi said‚ referring to similar charges that the ...
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