NPA sets date for Zuma graft charges decision
The National Director of Public Prosecutions will confirm his decision relating to the corruption charges against Jacob Zuma to the lawyers of the former President and the affected parties by 15 March, the NPA said yesterday.
According to a News24 report, spokesperson Luvuyo Mfaku said the State Attorney's Office has written to the Council for the Advancement of the South African Constitution (Casac) confirming Shaun Abrahams had reached a decision and would be communicating this by the cut-off date, less than three weeks away.
Mfaku said Abrahams would thereafter ‘announce his decision to the nation’. On 31 January, just hours before his deadline, Zuma submitted representations to the NPA. The representations relate to a SCA ruling which dismissed Zuma's and the NPA's application to appeal a Gauteng High Court (Pretoria) ruling that the dropping of the corruption charges against him by then NPA boss Mokotedi Mpshe was ‘irrational’.
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