Between the Chains
SIKONATHI MANTSHANTSHA: Now for Mosebenzi Zwane?
"What if this decision was made by a judge? What if this decision was made by the public protector? Would your reaction have been the same? The days of disrespecting decisions of the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) are over. The days of looking at the NPA in such a light are over."That barrage of words came from Shaun Abrahams, national director of public prosecutions, in response to a journalist’s questions about the NPA’s decision to prosecute finance minister Pravin Gordhan for his alleged fraudulent handling of a human resources matter while he was head of the SA Revenue Service (Sars). Doing his best to look and sound respectable, in a vain attempt to convince those present that he was nobody’s puppet, Abrahams took exception to journalists’ questions at the briefing he had called to announce that the NPA had charged Gordhan for approving a R1.1m pension to senior Sars employee Ivan Pillay.Abrahams said the NPA was discharging its responsibilities independently of any poli...
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