Mampara of the week: Shaun Abrahams
23 October 2016 - 02:00
You'd think, with all the trauma the National Prosecuting Authority has been through, that the incumbent national director of public prosecutions would be more circumspect in deciding who he meets with and where. Yet this Mampara sees no potential conflict in attending a meeting at Luthuli House with cabinet ministers and the very man he may one day have to charge on more than 700 counts of corruption, fraud and money-laundering.Abrahams always cries foul over accusations that he is not his own man . But his actions since taking office, including charging Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan with fraud and then practically begging him to give him reasons to drop the charges, persuade us that we have a Mampara for a chief prosecutor...
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