It seems that we continue to pay a lot of money for the adventures of President Zuma.  This time it is the National Director of Public Prosecutions who got paid out his entire contract of 10 years which led to him receiving R17 million.  One assumes then that the government had no real basis to call the enquiry, which they were doing, into his fitness to hold office.  

One can only assume that Mxolisi Nxasana was obviously investigating something that people did not want him to investigate.  His attorney, who I know well, Busani Mabunda, said that his client received a top security clearance for the job and that his client has fully disclosed the issue that the government raised now, when he applied for the job.  So we’ve had the head of the Hawks leave, also taking a golden handshake and now we have what appears to be yet another golden handshake.  The temporary head of the National Director of Public Prosecutions, Mr Ramaite, was arrested for drunken driving after he crashed his Jaguar into another vehicle in Limpopo in June 2011, but those charges appear to have been withdrawn recently.  Things are really looking very troublesome in the prosecuting and investigating areas with all these institutions being weakened.