Questions about Adv Glynnis Breytenbach's suspension remain unanswered
The Democratic Alliance (DA) notes that the long threatened suspension of Specialised Commercial Crimes prosecutor Adv Glynnis Breytenbach has been put into effect. Some important questions relating to her suspension, however, remain unanswered (see City Press (online) report).
When the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) appeared before the Portfolio Committee on Justice on 17 April, the DA put two questions to the Acting National Director of Public Prosecutions, Adv Nomgcobo Jiba:
Firstly, why, if the threatened suspension was not an attempt at intimidation, Adv Breytenbach was still at the SCCU when the suspension was threatened so many weeks ago?
Secondly, how did the sequence of events leading to Breytenbachs' threatened suspension unfold? Was she told to drop the Mdluli fraud charge? Did she resist or refuse? Was she then threatened with suspension on the ICT/Kumba matter? Were the Mdluli charges dropped at the same time?
At the time, Adv Jiba requested an opportunity to establish the sequence and to respond to us.