{"id":219261,"date":"2018-01-14T08:03:23","date_gmt":"2018-01-14T06:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=219261"},"modified":"2018-01-14T08:03:23","modified_gmt":"2018-01-14T06:03:23","slug":"ramaphosa-to-remove-shaun-abrahams-from-npa-post-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/219261\/ramaphosa-to-remove-shaun-abrahams-from-npa-post-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Ramaphosa to remove Shaun Abrahams from NPA post: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ANC president\u00a0Cyril Ramaphosa will reportedly fast-track his bid to remove Jacob Zuma as president, and Shaun Abrahams as NPA head.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report in the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeslive.co.za\/sunday-times\/news\/2018-01-13-ramaphosa-set-to-axe-npa-boss-shaun-abrahams\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sunday Times,<\/a><\/strong> the decision comes after\u00a0Ramaphosa reportedly forced Zuma&#8217;s hand in instituting the state capture commission this week, and after\u00a0Abrahams\u2019 refusal to pursue 10 cases brought to him by prosecutors working on state capture cases last month.<\/p>\n<p>A number of prosecutors were said to have met with Abrahams in December, and were prepared to brief him on\u00a0almost a dozen high-profile state capture cases that they were ready to prosecute.<\/p>\n<p>Abrahams was reportedly shocked, and refused to look at the case files, saying he needed to consult with higher authorities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe prosecutors caught him off-guard and he didn\u2019t know how to handle the matter. He still hasn\u2019t responded to them,\u201d said a senior ANC leader who was briefed on the matter.<\/p>\n<p><strong>New powers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ramaphosa was given the power to appoint the head of the National Prosecuting Authority after the December High Court judgement, which found that\u00a0 Zuma was compromised because of the corruption charges he faced.<\/p>\n<p>The vice president now wants these prosecutions to be undertaken immediately and for Abrahams to be removed, according to the Sunday paper.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0NEC also has the\u00a0power to recall any deployee, as was the case with Thabo Mbeki in 2008, meaning that Ramaphosa could potentially call for Zuma to step down at any time.<\/p>\n<p>However the Sunday Times reported that the NEC is said to be divided between those wanting Zuma to be removed immediately, those who believe he should be left to deliver the state of the nation address next month and then be removed, and those who believe he should see out his term in office.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/219041\/zuma-lists-his-conditions-if-he-is-to-step-down-as-president-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Zuma lists conditions for stepping down as president: report<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANC president\u00a0Cyril Ramaphosa will reportedly fast-track his bid to remove Jacob Zuma as president and Shaun Abrahams as NPA head.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":167757,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-219261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219261"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219279,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219261\/revisions\/219279"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}