South Africa: Constitutional Court Strikes a Blow for South Africa's Criminal Justice System

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The decision by South Africa's Constitutional Court nullifying former president Jacob Zuma's appointment of the country's prosecutions boss three years ago closes an unhappy chapter in the country's recent past. It undoes a wrong that threatened a key institution and the functioning of the criminal justice system in the fledgling democracy.

The court declared invalid the attempt by Zuma to terminate the appointment of National Director of Public Prosecutions, Mxolisi Nxasana. It ruled that Zuma had abused his power by offering Nxasana a golden handshake of more than R17 million (UD$1,2million) to get him to leave office. He eventually accepted the offer.

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