I have today written to the National Director of Public Prosecutions (NDPP), Adv Shamila Batohi, requesting a meeting to further discuss her letter to ActionSA relating to the prosecutions of those named in the State Capture Report.
Adv Batohi, in her letter, creates the impression that she will give effect to the recommendations contained in the State Capture Report but does not clarify exactly who will be prosecuted and the progress of the prosecutions.
Failure to give effect to the recommendations will, in effect, be a message to the South African people that the Zondo Commission was a monumental waste of time and resources.
ActionSA maintains that it is in the country’s best interests that we all cooperate to ensure that we get justice for the people of South Africa against those who are responsible for the state capture project that has brought our country to its knees.
To this end ActionSA will make its legal team available to assist where it can so that we may begin to restore confidence in our criminal justice system.
We are encouraged by Adv Batohi’s willingness to communicate with ActionSA in this regard and we are hopeful that she will accede to our request to meet.
It is our hope that by working together we can bring swift action in the form of arrests being affected, with resultant prosecutions and imprisonment that will give meaning to the Judicial Commission of Inquiry into State Capture.
