The NPA struggles due to leadership failures and political interference. A call for independence is crucial to restoring trust.
President Cyril Ramaphosa and National Director of Public Prosecutions Advocate Shamila Batohi.
It’s no secret that the NPA is a mess. Public confidence in the law and justice system is low and hopes that political corruption was a temporary phenomenon that would be corrected when Ramaphosa ousted Jacob Zuma have proved illusory.“The slow and erratic prosecution of widely reported cases of corruption undermines democracy and encourages the misappropriation of state resources,” writes the CDE.
As CDE director Ann Bernstein points out: “Not one high-profile politician involved in state capture has been successfully prosecuted.” It’s an unforgivable state of affairs, an example of both Batohi’s and Ramaphosa’s lack of appetite for a fight with Zuma-supporting elements at the highest level in the department.As a legal expert put it to me, “You don’t need nice people at the top. You need a human Rottweiler.”
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