Action SA's chairperson in the Free State slammed the National Prosecuting Authority for not seeing the corrupt brought to book.
‘NPA caught with its pants down’: ActionSA outraged with decade-long delays in Estina dairy farm case
Former Minister and former Free State MEC Mosebenzi Zwane is seen at Bloemfontein High Court on January 25, 2023 in Bloemfontein, South Africa. Zwane faces charges of fraud and corruption related to the Estina dairy farm scandal. The trial was set for 5 August to 13 September this year before the court decided on Wednesday it would not proceed due to the defence claiming it wasThe Estina dairy farm matter involves millions of rands in state funds that were looted from the Free State Agriculture Department between July 2012 and April 2014.
Kopane said almost 10 years ago, the party wrote to the National Director of Public Prosecutions, advocate Shamila Batohi, to get an understanding of the delays in prosecuting the case and raised concerns that the case would not proceed “if the NPA did not get its act together”.
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