Opinion

Court tells NPA to stop playing victim and do its job of punishing apartheid crimes

Prosecuting authority told it had duty to resist political interference

09 June 2019 - 00:05 By tymon smith

We live in the real world and we live in the post-Zuma era, so we know that the idea that a state institution, mandated to act without fear or favour and purely in the interests of justice and the will of the people it serves, is a fairy tale...

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