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This guys should have headed up the NPA. Clearly the 2 little elves Mpshe and Hofmeryer) are on the payroll of the ANC and not the department of justice.
Fire their a$$e$
The decision to stay charges against Jacob Zuma was unlawful and a tipping point on a slippery slope for the rule of law in South Africa, says a prominent constitutional law expert, advocate Wim Trengove.
In a scathing criticism of acting national prosecutions chief Mokotedi Mpshe's decision to let the ANC president off the hook, Trengove said Mpshe had not sufficiently weighed up the public interest in seeing justice done, particularly regarding those alleged to have abused public office.
Trengove said Mpshe's decision was based largely on peripheral considerations, such as "11th-hour shena****ns relating to the timing of the prosecution".
Addressing a public seminar at the University of Cape Town on Wednesday, Trengove warned that the saga which had unfolded around Zuma had sent ominous signals that the very fabric of society and the constitution could be eroded. He appealed to civil society and especially to lawyers to take a stand.
"We may later see this as a tipping point leading to a slippery slope to the erosion of the rule of law", said Trengove, a guest of UCT's Democratic Governance and Rights Unit.
The discussion, entitled "Zuma Walks: Special Treatment for Special Cases: Are some more protected under the constitution than others?", was part of a seminar series on "Security and the constitution".
Trengove has represented the National Prosecuting Authority several times in opposing Zuma's legal bids to have his prosecution stayed.
Trengove said Mpshe had failed to apply the two-step test he had set himself, which would have required him to establish not only whether the case was fatally infected by manipulation - as indicated by taped discussions between former prosecutions boss Bulelani Ngcuka and ex-Scorpions chief Leonard McCarthy - but also whether this contamination outweighed the public interest in seeing justice done.
Trengove added that Mpshe's conduct "seems to be that of one only too relieved to find an escape from unbearable pressures".
This guys should have headed up the NPA. Clearly the 2 little elves Mpshe and Hofmeryer) are on the payroll of the ANC and not the department of justice.
Fire their a$$e$
The decision to stay charges against Jacob Zuma was unlawful and a tipping point on a slippery slope for the rule of law in South Africa, says a prominent constitutional law expert, advocate Wim Trengove.
In a scathing criticism of acting national prosecutions chief Mokotedi Mpshe's decision to let the ANC president off the hook, Trengove said Mpshe had not sufficiently weighed up the public interest in seeing justice done, particularly regarding those alleged to have abused public office.
Trengove said Mpshe's decision was based largely on peripheral considerations, such as "11th-hour shena****ns relating to the timing of the prosecution".
Addressing a public seminar at the University of Cape Town on Wednesday, Trengove warned that the saga which had unfolded around Zuma had sent ominous signals that the very fabric of society and the constitution could be eroded. He appealed to civil society and especially to lawyers to take a stand.
"We may later see this as a tipping point leading to a slippery slope to the erosion of the rule of law", said Trengove, a guest of UCT's Democratic Governance and Rights Unit.
The discussion, entitled "Zuma Walks: Special Treatment for Special Cases: Are some more protected under the constitution than others?", was part of a seminar series on "Security and the constitution".
Trengove has represented the National Prosecuting Authority several times in opposing Zuma's legal bids to have his prosecution stayed.
Trengove said Mpshe had failed to apply the two-step test he had set himself, which would have required him to establish not only whether the case was fatally infected by manipulation - as indicated by taped discussions between former prosecutions boss Bulelani Ngcuka and ex-Scorpions chief Leonard McCarthy - but also whether this contamination outweighed the public interest in seeing justice done.
Trengove added that Mpshe's conduct "seems to be that of one only too relieved to find an escape from unbearable pressures".
