Most people feel resentful when they are unjustifiably taken for fools. This is why all those South Africans who witnessed the Shaun Abrahams show in Parliament’s justice committee last week will feel resentment towards the national director of public prosecutions. For those who lost money on the financial markets as a result of Abrahams’s decision to lay charges of theft and fraud against Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan, the feelings will be a little stronger than resentment. Abrahams astonished MPs — and the public — when he disowned the decision to prosecute Gordhan, saying that the decision was made by two other members of the National Prosecuting Authority staff. He insisted that he merely announced the decision after it had already been made. Few who saw the broadcast of the announcement on October 11 will forget the grandstanding of Abrahams, who insisted that a crime had been committed and it had to be prosecuted. He pontificated that everyone was equal before the law regard...
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