The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) is opposing an urgent high court application for a stay of prosecution pending the outcome of representations by former North West deputy provincial police commissioner Jan Mabula and members of a team of "rogue" detectives on multiple serious charges.
NPA boss Shamila Batohi has instructed her deputy Rodney de Kock to overrule a decision by Johannesburg prosecutors' head advocate Andrew Chauke to waiver the court appearance by Mabula and his co-accused as they make representations.
The judge is studying the papers and is expected to rule at the high court in Johannesburg on Tuesday .
The case comes more than two years after the NPA informed the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (Ipid), which had investigated Mabula and the “rogue” team implicated in several criminal matters, that a prosecution on 10 counts - including kidnapping and assault with intent to do grievous bodily harm - would go ahead.
The matter had been set down for November 20.
