9.02 ----- The City Press newspaper is leading with a question: "Is Pravin off the hook?" This from the story: "Informal discussions” are under way between National Director of Public Prosecutions (NDPP) Shaun Abrahams, his close allies in the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) as well as lawyers of Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan and his two co-accused to drop the charges against them. City Press has learnt that yesterday, a draft letter was compiled by Abrahams’ office, communicating his intention to drop the charges. The letter will be sent to lawyers for Gordhan and his former SA Revenue Service (Sars) deputies Oupa Magashula and Ivan Pillay, before they appear in court on Wednesday. A senior NPA official close to Abrahams, and a source close to Gordhan and his co-accused, both confirmed to City Press that talks were being held to drop the fraud charges against Gordhan and the others. Read the whole thing here. So what exactly is going on here? What is clear is that Shaun Abra...
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