Since its inception nearly three years ago, the National Prosecuting Authority’s (NPA) Investigating Directorate has failed to successfully prosecute a single case.
’s Investigating Directorate has failed to successfully prosecute a single case.
“A successful prosecution is charging people and so there's no cases that's been concluded yet. These matters are really complicated and the sad reality is that in the current climate accused persons will do everything possible to ensure cases do not proceed to finality; that the state is not even able to start leading the evidence on merits of the case.
The briefing was initially scheduled for June, Batohi said, but was postponed to December and comes on the back of the resignation of NPA head of the Investigating Directorate HPresident Cyril Ramaphosa appointed Cronje in May 2019 to effectively expedite the investigation and prosecution of state capture cases.
“Advocate Cronje's resignation is a culmination of various factors. The incorrect narrative that it's because of interpersonal relations between her and I really makes for dramatic reporting and that's where it ends.
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