Former head of National Prosecution Authority Bulelani Ngcuka maintains that his new book, The Sting in the Tail, is not intended to settle political scores.
Former head of National Prosecution Authority Bulelani Ngcuka maintains that his new book,He said the biography aims to document some of the most important moments in our country’s legal and political history post apartheid.
The offering shines the spotlight on Ngcuka’s role as the first national director of public prosecutions and revisits some of the decisions he took while occupying this critical role. “It is not a decision that I took alone. I brought in senior members of the prosecution who were a bit distant from the investigation so that they can bring objectivity. I asked them to review the case and they came to the conclusion that it would be dangerous to charge Zuma when we did not have sufficient evidence,” he said.
Having left the NPA, Ngcuka said he had encouraged those who remained in the organisation to always prosecute where there is enough evidence.“If you have evidence that an offence has been committed and it's sufficient for you to get a conviction, you charge. There is no doubt about that. No-one is above the law.”
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