The President ups the game in “stamping out corruption"

SOUTH AFRICA - Report 02 May 2019 by Iraj Abedian

​After being elected as the new leader of South Africa’s governing party ANC (December 21, 2017) and being sworn in as the fifth democratic President of the nation (February 15, 2018), Cyril Ramaphosa pledged to fight corruption and support economic revival. Indeed, this has been his aim since then, and he stressed this point on May 1, 2019, at Cosatu's 33rd May Day celebrations at the Sugar Ray Xulu Stadium in Clermont, Durban. Put in his own words, the President stated, “We are going to make sure those who are found to be accountable, have to be accountable before the law. In the end corruption is not only corruption against the state, it is corruption against the people of SA.”

As such, in efforts to deal with leadership crisis and restore credibility of the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA), President Ramaphosa fired both advocates Nomgcobo Jiba and Lawrence Mrwebi a week ago (4/24/2019), as the Mokgoro Commission (led by the retired Constitutional Court Justice Yvonne Mokgoro) found them neither fit nor proper to hold their respective offices. Advocate Nomgcobo Jiba was one of the four Deputy National Directors of Public Prosecutions, and Advocate Lawrence Sithembiso Mrwebi was the Special Director of Public Prosecutions who headed the Specialised Commercial Crimes Unit. The pair had been struck off the roll of advocates back in September 2016 for the manner in which they had dealt with a number of politically charged cases (including a case involving the former head of crime intelligence, Richard Mdluli). Then later in 2018 (October 26), the President provisionally suspended them (Jiba and Mrwebi) in terms of Section 12(6) of the NPA Act, following serious criticisms made against them in the court during the course of litigation and in other fora.

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