Is the Deputy President the Appropriate Person to Appoint the National Director of Public Prosecutions?
(World News South Africa)

[Daily Maverick] The judgment handed down on Friday by the Gauteng High Court, which declared the `resignation` of the previous National Director of Public Prosecutions (NDPP), Mxolisi Nxasana (as well as the subsequent appointment of Shaun Abrahams as NDPP) unconstitutional and invalid, and ordered that the Deputy President must appoint a new NDPP in his capacity as acting president, raises profoundly important and interesting constitutional issues. Unfortunately, some comments on the judgment have been ill-informed and l ......