Mokgoro Report: When will Ramaphosa act?

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The deadline for President Cyril Ramaphosa to decide whether or not to fire suspended prosecutions bosses Nomgcobo Jiba and Lawrence Mrwebi passed at midnight on Thursday night, with no indication from the Presidency as to what Ramaphosa plans to do.

Ramaphosa had until 00:00, April 26 to act on recommendations by the Mokgoro Inquiry panel, which was that he should "remove from office" Jiba and Mrwebi.

Jiba, former acting National Director of Public Prosecutions and Mrwebi, former head of the Specialist Commercial Crimes Unit, were suspended in October last year, giving Ramaphosa six months to decide their fate as per a Constitutional Court ruling.

The Mokgoro report, leaked on Wednesday night, deals with critical questions about Jiba and Mrwebi's fitness for office that has been unanswered for the better part of a decade.

From blatant disregard for the rule of law to dishonesty and borderline perjury, the report is a lesson on how not to be a senior prosecutor.

Court cases

The panel, consisting of retired Constitutional Court judge Yvonne Mokgoro, Advocate Kgomotso Moroka SC and Thenjiwe Vilakazi, had a wide mandate. Readers of the report who have followed the crisis at the NPA over the years will be left with few questions over what happened.

The scope of issues covered by the panel included a number of lengthy, detailed court cases involving the pair, including the Spy Tapes cases and various attempts to have them struck from the roll of advocates.

The voluminous record ran into 5 214 files contained in a Dropbox folder which was used by all the parties - some of these files contained entire records, according to the panel.

Ramaphosa suspended both Mrwebi and Jiba in October 2018 pending the outcome of an inquiry into their fitness to hold office. This followed "serious criticisms" of Jiba and Mrwebi in courts and "in other fora", according to Mokgoro.

The report was submitted to Ramaphosa on March 31 2019 and leaked to the media a day before Ramaphosa's April deadline by which he must make a decision on Jiba and Mrwebi's fate.
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https://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/mokgoro-report-when-will-ramaphosa-act-20190426
 
The deadline for President Cyril Ramaphosa to decide whether or not to fire suspended prosecutions bosses Nomgcobo Jiba and Lawrence Mrwebi passed at midnight on Thursday night, with no indication from the Presidency as to what Ramaphosa plans to do.
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joke of the day.

viva anc ..... viva .......
viva cr ..... viva .......
 
If he acts in the next week I'll be happy. Not as if a few days makes a huge difference.
 
Blue Shirt said:
Cyril is no different from any of the previous cANCer prezidents. This report will disappear into obscurity because he will choose not to act on it, like so many before.
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This didn't age well.
 
Good that he's acted...

I'm surprised it has to be ratified by parliament though, but hey...
 
thechamp said:
Oh dear! Now we must complain even more since he has acted on the two, right my Broederbonders?
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Fantastic! Saw the article in Bloomberg about 10mins ago. Now we wait to see if SARS acts on the bribery allegations by doing a full lifestyle tax audit on the two fired cadres.
 
Mista_Mobsta said:
Fantastic! Saw the article in Bloomberg about 10mins ago. Now we wait to see if SARS acts on the bribery allegations by doing a full lifestyle tax audit on the two fired cadres.
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He has done well, I am impressed with him so far, following due process and all that, even though people get impatient but it makes my day every time Moyane goes to court and loses, hopefully the same happens with these two.
 
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