How the NPA can regain the respect of the public

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The National Prosecuting Authority must begin to pursue particular classes of criminals to show it is doing its job, writes Lukas Muntingh

The National Prosecuting Authority must begin to pursue particular classes of criminals to show it is doing its jobOn October 15 national director of public prosecutions Shamila Batohi presented the 2018/2019 annual report of the National Prosecuting Authority to the portfolio committee on justice & correctional services. The report makes for grim reading.

The report covered the year before Batohi’s appointment as NDPP. She used phrases such as “crisis management” and referred to the criminal justice system as being “partly dysfunctional”. Batohi’s reference to crisis management is important because an institution is in crisis when nothing anchors the future. Such a crisis occurs when the institutional structure of a policy sector experiences a relatively strong decline in legitimacy. During a crisis the policies, paradigm, goals and functioning of a policy sector are severely criticised, such that the crisis poses a severe threat to the core values of a social system requiring stakeholders to make quick decisions.

What can then be done to address the legitimacy crisis of the NPA? A good starting point would be to have a time frame to anchor the future. Let that be three years. The first priority is to see some high-level prosecutions, such as the one implicating Bosasa in tender irregularities at the department of correctional services. The Special Investigating Unit completed its investigation into the case some 10 years ago, and since then the docket has been at the NDPP’s office.

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