NPA’s ‘oversight’ or was it yet just another day at the oopsie clown show?
Oh, sweet merciful heavens! What a tale! Our beloved NPA gave another dashing performance this week – a circus where the clowns wear pinstripes and “oversight” is code for “oops, we forgot to check if our pants were on fire”.
Senior prosecutor Johannes De Nysschen – a man whose name sounds like a rejected Bond villain – stood in court and admitted that charging Ace Magashule’s former PA Moroadi Cholota with fraud was… wait for it… an oversight. Ah, yes. Like forgetting to feed the cat. Or misplacing your car keys. Or, say, accidentally charging someone with four counts of fraud because the Yanks told you your case was flimsier than an ANC election promise.
Ag, shame.
The US authorities took one look at the charges and said, “Andizi”. But our NPA, ever the overachievers, ploughed ahead anyway. Now, in a trial within a trial, the state stands accused of strong-arming Cholota to sing like a canary against Magashule. When she didn’t chirp? They charged her. Classic NPA playbook. De Nysschen’s defence? “Oopsie!” Come now, Johannes.
This isn’t an “oversight”. Let’s call it what it is: a brazen flex of power. Neither option flatters our justice system. The NPA’s credibility is dangling by a thread thinner than Jacob Zuma’s patience at a state capture inquiry.
