Casac presses Abrahams to delay decision on Zuma charges
The prosecutions chief has been asked to wait until a ruling is made on his own position, which was declared vacant in 2017
The Council for the Advancement of the South African Constitution (Casac) has asked National Director of Public Prosecutions (NDPP) Shaun Abrahams to give an undertaking to the Constitutional Court that he will not make a decision regarding the prosecution of former president Jacob Zuma before the court has ruled on the confirmation application before it. Casac has submitted to the court that it would not be in the interests of justice for Abrahams to make the decision on Zuma’s prosecution before the judges make a decision on the case that deals directly with the position of NDPP. The position was declared vacant by the High Court in Pretoria in December last year. The Constitutional Court is set to hear the confirmation application on February 28, following the judgment in which Zuma was found to be too conflicted to appoint the NDPP since he faced looming corruption, money laundering, fraud and racketeering charges. Zuma resigned last week, which now made that part of the order m...
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