Breytenbach, NPA ‘to discuss her return’

The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) had sent a letter to prosecutor Glynnis Breytenbach’s legal team inviting them to discuss her possible return to work, her lawyer, Gerhard Wagenaar, said on Tuesday. Mr Wagenaar said he suggested the meeting take place on Friday, but he was still waiting to hear from the NPA. Comment from the NPA could not immediately be obtained. On Monday, Ms Breytenbach was found not guilty on 15 counts by a disciplinary hearing at the NPA’s Pretoria head office. A core charge against the antigraft prosecutor was failing to act impartially when investigating the Kumba Iron Ore-Sishen and Imperial Crown Trading mining rights issue, because of “improper relations” with Sishen’s lawyer, Mike Hellens.