The academic believes the Democratic candidate will win the US election and slammed Republican candidate Donald Trump as racist and xenophobic.
The new charges would relate to the establishment of a ‘rogue’ unit in 2007, when Gordhan was commissioner of SARS, the City Press reported.
The NPA and the Hawks are corrupt and no longer nonpartisan, and so their leaders must go.
The NPA chief also said there is no reason to apologise to anyone regarding his decision to issue a summons against Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan.
Police Minister Nathi Nhleko has revealed the amount of money used in attempts to oust three senior Hawks officers and an IPID head.
Two approved marches organised by the Democratic Alliance and the Economic Freedom Fighters are set to take place undeterred on Wednesday.
The NPA boss denies reports that he may drop the charges against finance minister Pravin Gordhan.
The Helen Suzman Foundation states that the timing of this subpoena suggests a “desperate, 11th-hour” bid to prop up the prosecution of Gordhan.
What’s been revealed is the very shaky ground on which the case against Pravin Gordhan is based.
The High Court in Pretoria ruled on September that Jiba and her colleague be struck off the roll of advocates.
His latest assault on Pravin Gordhan appears to be nothing more than a desperate bid to save face.
The finance minister instead invited the NPA boss to withdraw the fraud charges against him.
Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan said on Friday he would not make a presentation to the NPA head.
The National Prosecuting Authority head needs to justify the charges against the finance minister.
The finance minister will not make any presentations to the national director of public prosecutions, according to his legal team.
More leaders in and outside the ANC condemned the decision of the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) to charge Gordhan.
What lies behind the decision to criminally charge South Africa’s finance minister?
‘We the leadership of this institution are consulting with senior council on the matter and we are currently considering the matter,’ Abrahams said.
Fraud charges against South African Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan have moved the country a step closer to a junk rating.
‘We trust that today’s announcement will move us a step closer to uncovering the truth from facts and bring this matter to finality,’ the party said.
Shaun Abrahams is briefing the media on the NPA’s investigation into the Sars ‘Rogue Unit’.
A Constitutional Court ruling may result in the president finally facing 783 criminal charges.
NPA spokesperson Luvuyo Mfaku said the court was mindful of the fact that Zuma had petitioned the SCA on the same matter.
NPA spokesperson Luvuyo Mfaku said Jiba and Mrwebi confirmed their instructions to their legal teams to file applications for leave to appeal.
Conviction rates are high, but backlogs are mounting and key crime cases are languishing.
President Jacob Zuma has filed his replying affidavit to the SCA in Bloemfontein, challenging a court ruling that he should face corruption charges.
Oscar Pistorius’s sentence is ‘shockingly lenient’ and ‘disproportionate to the crime of murder’, the National Prosecuting Authority has said.
Readers write in about the NPA, and the SABC.
Inmates want the NPA to tell them why their jailers weren’t prosecuted
The logic behind the head of the prosecuting authority’s decisions to go to court over charges against the president is confusing, if not alarming.
President Jacob Zuma is launching a fightback against his detractors and those threatening his lines of patronage.
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.