LETTER: Blushing Batohi unfit for office
There's no valid reason for the prosecutions chief to have done nothing about prosecutors exposed in De Kock report
10 August 2020 - 20:10
It is appropriate that the national director of public prosecutions, Shamila Batohi, had the good grace to blush when questioned during her “Woman’s Day webinar” about her year of passivity in the face of the damning De Kock report of June 2019.
In the report, two current senior prosecutors were clearly exposed as criminals; “saboteurs” involved in the conspiracy to spike the guns of Johan Booysen, retired head of the Hawks in KwaZulu-Natal. This high-level malfeasance was perpetrated to protect friends of Jacob Zuma involved in the criminality of state capture...
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