From Zuma to Steinhoff, the National Prosecuting Authority has its work cut out for it. But can it rise to the occasion?
According to Abrahams’ answering affidavit, he contested the High Court’s finding that there was no vacancy which resulted in his appointment.
The prosecution is on behalf of former KZN Hawks head who alleges he was unlawfully targeted after he began an investigation into a Zuma associate.
The two were asked to make representations as to why they should not be suspended, pending the outcome of an inquiry into their fitness to hold office
Judge Francis Legodi said last year the pair were "not fit and proper" for their positions.
Solly Magobosha doesn’t know who to trust after his investigation into Nomgcobo Jiba and Lawrence Mrwebi.
Dissent between the justices hints that some favour the executive, a worrying shift particularly at this time in South Africa’s political affairs
The High Court in Pretoria ruled on September that Jiba and her colleague be struck off the roll of advocates.
NPA spokesperson Luvuyo Mfaku said Jiba and Mrwebi confirmed their instructions to their legal teams to file applications for leave to appeal.
The court found that she is not fit and proper to hold the position of deputy director.
Judges Francis Legodi and Wendy Hughes in the high court in Pretoria have concurred that the two are not “fit and proper” for their jobs.
The Hawks man claims in court the reinstatement of discredited charges is part of a political vendetta.
Anyone who has followed the actions and inactions of the NPA over the past few years is likely to think that the NPA is pursuing a political agenda.
Reinstating charges against Glynnis Breytenbach and Johan Booysen as the DA awaits a ruling regarding Nomgcobo Jiba could be the NPA’s downfall.
The deputy NPA head is squaring off against his boss and fellow deputy with a damning affidavit.
The deputy NPA head is squaring off against his boss and fellow deputy with a damning affidavit.
Two court cases have deputy national director of public prosecutions Nomgcobo Jiba with her back against the wall.
The integrity of two appointments, to the Hawks and the prosecuting authority, is questionable.
Decisions by ‘no one’s man’ reveal his vision of an independent national prosecutions authority.
Shaun Abrahams’s flirtation with "information peddlers" and his intervention in the prosecution of Nomgcobo Jiba have raised concerns.
Shaun Abrahams has the title of NPA director, but his controversial deputy has the power after he brazenly ignored the serious challenges against her.
There are two ways of ending a war: by making peace or by annihilating the opposition. Zuma’s new choice appears to have chosen the latter.
The NPA’s Nomgcobo Jiba insists her decisions have never been influenced by political or police pressures.
Shaun Abrahams has reshuffled the NPA leadership – while the Bar Council says Jiba could still be barred despite charges against her being dropped.
The NPA has said it is withdrawing the charges of fraud and perjury against Nomgcobo Jiba relating to the prosecution of KZN Hawks head Johan Booysen.
The DA said it would ask Parliament to haul new NPA boss Shaun Abrahams before it if he drops charges against his deputy, Nomgcobo Jiba.
The president is playing a high-stakes game as politics continues to plague the prosecutions body.
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.
An advocates body wants the courts to disbar the prosecutions deputy over the Mdluli ‘cover-up’.
The SA Police Service says it has never questioned the validity of a summons delivered against deputy prosecutions boss Nomgcobo Jiba.
Prosecutors and police are at loggerheads over who authorised a summons for Nxasana’s deputy.
Riah Phiyega has denied that a summons has been issued for deputy director of public prosecutions Nomgcobo Jiba, but the NPA insists otherwise.