There is a strong case to be made that, in the national interest, the NPA must decide whether it intends to prosecute Zuma or not.
The Cabinet has asked South Africans to refrain from pressuring the NPA while it evaluated whether to proceed with corruption charges against Zuma.
The public protector will only celebrate the ConCourt ruling affirming her powers when the Hawks and NPA drop their investigation into her conduct.
Rebuilding faith in the NPA is a process that cannot even begin while Zuma is in office.
The former president has accused retired judge Chris Nicholson of putting a "judicial stamp of approval" on allegations against him.
Controversy shrouds the appointment of the Hawks head in Durban, who got the job despite a pending criminal case for allegedly losing his firearm.
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.
The NPA’s Nomgcobo Jiba insists her decisions have never been influenced by political or police pressures.
Nowhere is the contempt of institutions more visible and more damaging than in President Zuma’s attitude towards the National Prosecuting Authority.
The new head of the NPA, Shaun Abrahams, will have to prove that he is his ‘own man’ and not to be messed with.
Will deputy NDPP Nomgcobo Jiba and specialised commercial crimes unit head Lawrence Mrwebi survive the exit of prosecutions boss Mxolisi Nxasana.
The president is playing a high-stakes game as politics continues to plague the prosecutions body.
Prosecutions director Jiba apparently uses a ‘go-to guy’ to handle tricky political situations.
Two news stories highlight ongoing political meddling that subverts the rule of law.
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
An advocates body wants the courts to disbar the prosecutions deputy over the Mdluli ‘cover-up’.
The president claims in court papers that his predecessor offered him R20m to go quietly.
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.
Riah Phiyega has denied that a summons has been issued for deputy director of public prosecutions Nomgcobo Jiba, but the NPA insists otherwise.
The deputy director of public prosecutions Nomgcobo Jiba faces two charges of fraud and one count of perjury.
All the whitewashing after Jackie Selebi’s funeral looks suspiciously like another attack from Zuma’s circle on the National Prosecuting Authority.
NPA spokesperson Nathi Mncube says the authority is now in the hands of the Supreme Court of Appeal to set a date for the Oscar Pistorius appeal.
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.
The NPA denies it interfered in Julius Malema’s corruption case, saying its decision to prosecute Malema was based on credible evidence.
The DA says it wishes to obtain access to additional documents and recordings as part of the spy tapes.
The ANC has ‘noted’ the ruling for the NPA to hand over the spy tapes and the DA said it would review them thoroughly to establish authenticity.