Cyril Ramaphosa must appoint NDPP, Casac says, but should it be Mxolisi Nxasana?
President Cyril Ramaphosa should be the one to appoint a new national director of public prosecutions (NDPP)‚ following the Pretoria High Court judgment in December, which set aside incumbent Shaun Abrahams’s appointment. The Council for the Advancement of the South African Constitution (Casac) made this submission before the Constitutional Court on Wednesday when suggesting what the solution should be. The High Court in Pretoria had also set aside the R17.3m settlement agreement that Abrahams’s predecessor, Mxolisi Nxasana, reached with then-president Jacob Zuma to leave the position in 2015, and ordered Nxasana to repay the golden handshake. The high court judgment had also ordered that the deputy president — Ramaphosa at the time — appoint the new NDPP or acting NDPP. Zuma had appealed against the order that Ramaphosa appoint the NDPP‚ but after he was removed as president earlier in February, Ramaphosa withdrew the application‚ stating that the matter was now moot. Casac counsel...
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