The Democratic Alliance (DA) has filed a Promotion of Access to Information Act application, to force President Cyril Ramaphosa to release the report into the National Director of Public Prosecutions (NDPP) selection process.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ramaphosa unexpectedly appointed Advocate Andy Mothibi, head of the Special Investigating Unit as NDPP.<\/p>\n
This follows recommendations presented by an advisory panel, who led interviews of six shortlisted candidates for the NDPP role.\u00a0<\/p>\n
According to Ramaphosa\u2019s office, the panel presented a report to the president, recommending that none of the shortlisted candidates were suitable for the role.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Mthibi is set to replace Shamila Batohi, whose term comes to an end this month.<\/p>\n
DA Spokesperson on Justice and Constitutional Development, Advocate Glynnis Breytenbach said that South Africans are entitled to see the NDPP advisory panel report.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Breytenbach said that Ramaphosa cannot exercise such sweeping Constitutional powers behind a veil of secrecy.<\/p>\n
“This position undermines transparency in a process that was already marred by delays, an ill-equipped panel, and a failure to properly discharge its mandate. The National Director of Public Prosecutions is a very important positions and South Africans deserve to know he (Ramaphosa) arrived at the decision to appoint Mothibi.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ramaphosa\u2019s Spokesperson Vincent Magwenya confirmed the report would not be made public.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Democratic Alliance (DA) has filed a Promotion of Access to Information Act application, to force President Cyril…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[397,398,403,400,399,401,96,402,406,405,404,131],"class_list":{"0":"post-18229","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-south-africa","8":"tag-ewn","9":"tag-ewn-news","10":"tag-ewn-south-africa","11":"tag-eye-witness-news","12":"tag-eyewitness-news","13":"tag-latest-news","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-news-today","16":"tag-prime-media-plus","17":"tag-primedia-plus","18":"tag-primedia","19":"tag-south-africa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}