AfriForum charges Shaun Abrahams
Civil rights organisation AfriForum and former KwaZulu-Natal provincial Hawks head Johan Booysen filed criminal charges of perjury and defeating the ends of justice against National Director of Public Prosecutions (NDPP) Advocate Shaun Abrahams.
“AfriForum is of opinion that Shaun Abrahams is not a fit and proper person for the position he holds. We are asking President Cyril Ramaphosa to fire him with immediate effect and to appoint a new head to the National Prosecuting Authority [who] will act without fear, favour and prejudice,” Monique Taute, head of AfriForum’s Anticorruption Unit said when she addressed journalists at the Silverton police station in Pretoria East.
Taute said Booysen had approached AfriForum and the organisation was assisting him in filing the charges against Abrahams relating to the 2015 withdrawal of charges of fraud and perjury against Advocate Nomgcobo Jiba.
“This case follows after the [High Court in Pretoria] made a judgment about a case where Abrahams withdrew the charges against Nomgcobo Jiba, his deputy. In that judgment the court said with regards to Abrahams’ statement, as well as the statement of another advocate, they had lied under oath,” said Taute.
“The court also found that it had been Abrahams who had withdrawn the charges against Jiba on the recommendation of Marshall Mokgathle, regional head of the Specialised Commercial Crimes Unit. It was also the court’s view that Abrahams and Mokgathle’s versions had raised serious questions of credibility, and also that the explanation for the withdrawal that had been given by Abrahams and had been supported by Mokgathle was bizarre in the extreme.”
The National Prosecuting Authority was yesterday not available to comment on the charges brought by AfriForum and Booysen. – ANA