{"id":9936,"date":"2026-01-07T19:51:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T19:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/9936\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T19:51:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T19:51:09","slug":"outgoing-npa-head-shamila-batohi-transformed-repositioned-npa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/9936\/","title":{"rendered":"Outgoing NPA head Shamila Batohi &#8216;transformed &#038; repositioned NPA&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Cyril Ramaphosa believes the criticism levelled against outgoing National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) head Shamila Batohi is unfair, saying she led the institution during a particularly challenging political period.<\/p>\n<p>Batohi\u2019s tenure as the National Director of Public Prosecutions (NDPP) is set to end this month.<\/p>\n<p>Ramaphosa recently announced that Special Investigating Unit (SIU) head Andy Mothibi will succeed Batohi, starting on the first of next month.<\/p>\n<p>The president commented on the NPA\u2019s leadership changes on the sidelines of the ANC\u2019s 114th birthday celebrations in the North West.<\/p>\n<p>ALSO READ: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ewn.co.za\/2026\/01\/07\/parliaments-justice-committee-welcomes-andy-mothibi-as-new-npa-boss\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Parliament&#8217;s justice committee welcomes Mothibi&#8217;s appointment as new NPA boss<\/a><\/p>\n<p>When Batohi took office in 2019, one of her main priorities was to tackle corruption linked to State capture.<\/p>\n<p>Some critics argue that she struggled to prosecute State capture suspects and claim that criminal infiltration increased during her tenure.<\/p>\n<p>Ramaphosa, however, does not believe Batohi failed in her duties, noting that the past few years have been challenging for anyone in public office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShamila Batohi came in at a time when the NPA was in serious need of transformation, and she has done really excellently in transforming and repositioning the NPA.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Econonmic Freedom Fighters (EFF) claims Batohi\u2019s performance at the Nkabinde Commission of Inquiry reflects incompetence.<\/p>\n<p>But Ramaphosa believes the criticism directed at her is unfair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Cyril Ramaphosa believes the criticism levelled against outgoing National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) head Shamila Batohi is unfair,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9937,"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-9936","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\/9936","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=9936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}