The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) is disputing claims that its head, Shaun Abrahams, is one of President Jacob Zuma’s puppets. Abrahams has given Zuma an extra seven weeks to make his case for why he should not be prosecuted for the multimillion-rand fraud and corruption case against him. The NPA[…]
Democratic Alliance leader Mmusi Maimane – who says President Jacob Zuma’s legal bills have cost South African taxpayers about R30 million already – has given prosecuting boss Shaun Abrahams a 10-day deadline. “I will be writing to the National Director of Public Prosecutions‚ Advocate Shaun Abrahams‚ insisting that Jacob Zuma[…]
The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) and lawyers for are considering a plan to ensure that it will be many years before the country’s first citizen gets to have his day in court. The plan emerged after Zuma’s advocate, Kemp J Kemp, made a dramatic concession at the Supreme Court of[…]
The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) claims that it has not abandoned processing corruption charges against President Jacob Zuma, adding that it is investigating a previous decision not to prosecute the president and has reinstated some of the charges that were dropped. This comes after a DA complaint about Zuma’s alleged[…]
A full bench of the High Court in Pretoria will on Thursday hear the joint application of the Helen Suzman Foundation and Freedom Under Law to compel President Zuma to suspend NPA Head, Shaun Abrahams and two other officials. The organisations wants the President to suspend Abrahams, Dr Torie Pretorius[…]
NPA head Shaun Abrahams is unfit for office and must be suspended, the Helen Suzman Foundation and Freedom Under Law are arguing. The two organisations have launched an application to order President Jacob Zuma to suspend Abrahams, along with the head of the priority crimes litigation unit, Dr Torie Pretorius,[…]
Archbishop Emeritus, Njongonkulu Ndungane has added his voice to the list of high-profile people calling for the resignation of National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) head, Shaun Abrahams. This follows the NPA’s withdrawal of fraud charges against Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan and two former SARS employees. In a statement, Ndungane says Abrahams[…]
‘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[…]
Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan on Tuesday told National Director of Public Prosecutions Shaun Abrahams that he would not be taking up his invite to make representations by 17:00. Instead he invited Abrahams to withdraw the charges against him, in relation to an early retirement payout granted to former SARS deputy commissioner[…]
National Prosecuting Authority head Shaun Abrahams has really blown it this time in his full-frontal attack against SA Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan. In his eagerness to serve political masters, the NPA chief has handed their enemies compelling evidence that he is on a crude vendetta against Gordhan based on trumped-up[…]
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