BREAKING: Prosecutor Gerrie Nel quits

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Johannesburg - The prosecutor who jailed Oscar Pistorius and former top cop Jackie Selebi has quit.

News24 can reveal that career state advocate Gerrie Nel has given the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) 24 hours’ notice of his resignation.

Nel is the former head of the now defunct Scorpions in Gauteng.

His immediate resignation after 35 years’ service, five years away from retirement, will send shockwaves through the beleaguered NPA, which has had four heads in the past decade.

Nel led the Scorpions’ Operation Bad Guys investigation into Selebi and the late mining magnate Brett Kebble. He received an international prosecutors’ award for his successful prosecution of Selebi, who also headed Interpol, on charges of corruption.

Nel was the chief prosecutor in the State’s murder case against former Paralympic champion Pistorius. In 2015 the Supreme Court of Appeal changed Pistorius’s culpable homicide conviction to murder.

In 2008 Nel was arrested on trumped-up fraud charges while pursuing Selebi. It later emerged that suspended deputy NPA head, Nomgcobo Jiba, was instrumental in securing an arrest warrant against Nel.

In 2011 City Press reported that Jiba’s hostility against Nel was caused by his involvement in a fraud case against her husband, Booker Nhantsi.

Nhantsi, a former lawyer and Scorpions investigator, was jailed for stealing money from his law firm’s trust account. President Jacob Zuma later expunged Nhantsi’s criminal record.

Nicknamed the “bulldog” prosecutor, Nel is a former provincial wrestler who teaches the sport to schoolchildren.
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http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/breaking-prosecutor-gerrie-nel-quits-20170131

Looks like the appeal against Oscar's sentence is going to fall flat on its face.
 
dunkyd said:
Seems to be more than OK ? Private donations appear to help a great deal as well as monthly contributions from members. Maybe worth joining to help SA get rid of some rotten apples ?
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Throwing money at an Afrikaner cultural institute doesn't seem like good sense. We've lost and it's never coming back - hell or high-water. Time to build around a unified South African culture.
 
Garson007 said:
Throwing money at an Afrikaner cultural institute doesn't seem like good sense. We've lost and it's never coming back - hell or high-water. Time to build around a unified South African culture.
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I fully agree. But how do you get Africans of all cultures to work together? Most Afrikaners are willing to work together with anyone to make the country better for everyone, but it always feels like we're the opposition.
 
dunkyd said:
Seems to be more than OK ? Private donations appear to help a great deal as well as monthly contributions from members. Maybe worth joining to help SA get rid of some rotten apples ?
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yup + they have plenty of bite and have made some actual differences.....
 
Nel resigns and its almost Valentines Day dont get ideas guys
 
I'm really amazed at the level of hate towards Afriforum. Most of it just smacks of virtue signalling.

Ugh, I'm so over this world. For all its faults Afriforum is being made out to be South Africa's new AWB when it just isn't.
 
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