President Cyril Ramaphosa named a respected female lawyer on Tuesday to head South Africa’s prosecuting authority which had been accused of improperly protecting former president Jacob Zuma. His appointment of Shamila Batohi further distances him from Zuma’s scandal-tainted rule during…
Supreme court rules Zuma’s appointment of chief prosecutor ‘invalid’ (Punch)
South Africa’s Supreme Court on Monday ruled that the appointment of chief prosecutor Shaun Abrahams was “constitutionally invalid”. The court’s ruling, upheld a decision by a lower court that found Abrahams was improperly appointed by former president Jacob Zuma. Abrahams…