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DA welcomes Ramaphosa's #NPA appeal withdrawal─── 07:52 Sat, 24 Feb 2018
The DA has welcomed President Cyril Ramaphosa's decision to withdraw the "futile appeal, launched by his predecessor, Jacob Zuma" in the appointment of a new National Director of Public Prosecutions (NDPP).
Corruption Watch, Freedom Under Law and the Council for the Advancement of the South African Constitution went to court over a golden handshake agreement between former NDPP Mxolisi Nxasana and former president Jacob Zuma.
Judge Dunstan Mlambo in the North Gauteng High Court found last year that the settlement agreement between Zuma and Nxasana was unlawful and that the termination of Nxasana's appointment was invalid.
As a result, the decision to appoint Shaun Abrahams as the NDPP was also found to be invalid by Mlambo.
He set aside Abrahams' appointment and ordered Ramaphosa, then deputy president, to appoint a replacement.
The matter will be before the Constitutional Court next week Wednesday.
