The president is playing a high-stakes game as politics continues to plague the prosecutions body.
It is vitally important to liberate the prosecuting authority from any form of political interference.
The real prospect of failing to force Nxasana out led to the president’s unedifying backdown
The M&G has an imaginary chat with President Jacob Zuma about his Russian trip and ending the inquiry into prosecutions head Mxolisi Nxasana.
The inquiry into the NPA boss has been cancelled by the president, who says he is currently "engaging with Nxasana".
The inquiry into whether the prosecutions boss is fit for the job has been terminated just as it was due to begin, on the orders of the president.
The NPA and other state institutions are working together to speed up the prosecution of perpetrators who commit xenophobic attacks.
National director of Public Prosecutions Mxolisi Nxasana has accused the police of "assuming the role of defence" in the matter involving his deputy.
Prosecutors and police are at loggerheads over who authorised a summons for Nxasana’s deputy.
President Jacob Zuma has established the terms of reference for the inquiry into NPA boss Mxolisi Nxasana’s fitness to hold office.
Recommendations against the key actors in the Richard Mdluli fraud case have gone unheeded.
President Jacob Zuma is going ahead with a probe into National Director of Public Prosecutions Mxolisi Nxasana’s fitness to hold office.
The embattled director of public prosecutions has denied reports that he was offered a R5m settlement deal, despite sources saying he asked for R7.5m.
A R5m silver handshake is apparently not enough to make National Prosecuting Authority head Mxolisi Nxasana step down quietly. He wants R7.5m.
An inquiry would shed light on why Jacob Zuma wants to elbow out Mxolisi Nxasana. Zuma’s presidential impartiality cannot be assumed.
Following the NPA’s request for all advocates to supply copies of their qualifications, Nomgcobo Jiba has questioned why this is happening now.
Nearly two months after the presidency announced a commission of inquiry into Mxolisi Nxasana, the NPA boss’s fate is still uncertain.
President Jacob Zuma has said that it was not up to Parliament to establish the suitability of candidates for the position of NDPP.
NPA head Mxolisi Nxasana is proving to be more than Zuma bargained for in his refusal to be suspended as national director of public prosecutions.
The National Prosecuting Authority boss Mxolisi Nxasana appears to have won round one in his battle against President Jacob Zuma to keep his job.
The man Jacob Zuma appointed as head of the National Prosecuting Authority, Mxolisi Nxasana, has won a meeting with No 1 to discuss his suspension.
Despite his resignation, suspended executive Prince Mokotedi says he intends to go through with his disciplinary hearing to try to clear his name.
As the crisis engulfing the NPA continues, a researcher has argued that the authority needs an independent body to police it.
National director of public prosecutions Mxolisi Nxasana has been asked to give reasons against his suspension. He is deemed to be "too independent".
The facts surrounding a dawn raid on an NPA employee’s house have become even murkier, as competing agendas battle it out.
The search came just hours before President Jacob Zuma questioned NPA chief Mxolisi Nxasana’s fitness to hold office.
Like the Ginwala inquiry, the intended probe into the NPA boss will be the first of its kind, and everyone will be interested in how it functions.
President Jacob Zuma has instituted an inquiry into National Director of Public Prosecutions Mxolisi Nxasana.
Despite reports, Jacob Zuma’s spokesperson says the president did not meet the NPA head to fire him.
The NPA is keeping its silence on the latest claim to surface against its head, Mxolisi Nxasana, of allegedly assaulting his former girlfriend.
The Democratic Alliance is seeking an urgent investigation into the appointment of National Director of Public Prosecutions Mxolisi Nxasana.
The justice minister has called on NPA managers to stop public bickering and told journalists no decision has been made on Mxolisi Nxasana.