NATIONAL NEWS - The highly anticipated decision on whether former president Jacob Zuma will face corruption charges will be announced in Pretoria on Friday afternoon.
“The National Director of Public Prosecutions [NDPP], Advocate Shaun Abrahams will today [Friday] at 15:30 announce his decision in respect of the Spy Tapes matter…,” National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) spokesperson Advocate Luvuyo Mfaku said in an advisory to media.
The decision would be made during a press briefing scheduled at the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) head office in Silverton, east of Pretoria.
Last month, the NPA said Abrahams had made a decision on whether Zuma would have his day in court.
That announcement, however, will be put on ice, for a few weeks at least, owing to an agreement between the NPA and the Council for the Advancement of the South African Constitution (Casac), a civil society organisation, which bound Abrahams to give two weeks’ notice to Casac before announcing the much-awaited decision on the Zuma charges.
“We have advised Casac that the NDPP has made his decision and will honour the two-week arrangement in terms of which he undertook to notify them before he announces his decision,” Mfaku said at the time.
“That two-week period would lapse on the 15th of March.”
