Madonsela should be the next NDPP

THE next national director of public prosecutions, once Shaun Abrahams has been shovelled out, has got to be Thuli Madonsela.

She one of very few people who had the courage to stand against state capture. Despite the delicious irony of her appointment, she is the only person who can clothe this critical position in the South African legal system with the gravitas and respect that it so desperately needs.

The recent reappointment of Matshela Koko at Eskom shows that the purveyors of state capture are not yet on the run, so the next head of the National Prosecuting Authority will have a fight on their hands, and Madonsela has shown she is up for that.

On the other hand, President Zuma isn’t going to have a pleasant weekend before next week’s ANC national executive committee meeting.

I have no doubt he will be looking for an “Uncle Bob package” so he can drive off into the Nkandla sunset without his current legal aches and pains. But this can’t happen. South Africa isn’t a failed state like Zimbabwe and our constitution is founded on the rule of law.

For too long now there has been one set of rules for the political elite and their lackeys and another for normal mortals like you and me. This must now end. and who better than Madonsela to make sure that an ex-president Zuma faces the law like anyone else?

I hope Zuma reflects on the old saying, while under cross-examination, that “The wheels of justice turn slowly, but exceedingly fine”. James Cunningham Camps Bay