No indication Zuma will act further on Abrahams, court hears
24 November 2016
Pretoria - The Helen Suzman Foundation and Freedom Under Law want to force President Jacob Zuma to suspend NPA head Shaun Abrahams because they do not believe he has any plans to do so.
"The president must be forced to decide on the issue in a determined time," the two organisations' legal representative David Unterhalter said in the High Court in Pretoria on Thursday.
Zuma and Abrahams are opposing the groups' bid.
FUL and HSF brought the matter following a decision by Abrahams not to push forward with charges against Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan and two former SARS officials Oupa Magashule and Ivan Pillay. This was in connection with an early retirement for Pillay, which Gordhan signed off on in 2010 when he was at SARS.