Acting head of the Special Investigating Unit Nomvula Mokhatla has gone to great lengths to defend her reinstatement of senior manager Miseria Nyathi.

The fraud and corruption case involving Northern Cape ANC chairperson John Block, which dates back to 2010, has been postponed until next year.

President Jacob Zuma has appointed deputy national director of public prosecutions, advocate Nomvula Mokhatla as the new acting head of the SIU.