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The
National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) says it will pursue
suspects with a fervent passion to secure convictions, despite
threats and intimidation by some groups.
Managers and prosecutors in the NPA will undergo training in the
next few months, in what is called the "fearless executive
programme".
This to ensure that prosecutors do not relent in their quest to get
convictions despite threats and intimidation they may experience.
National Director of Public Prosecutions (NDPP) Bulelani Ngcuka
made this announcement in Kempton Park today, during a two-day
national conference to address challenges facing prosecutors and
the state in which they worked in. Advocate Ngcuka told delegates
that the new "fearless executive" would be competent managers,
which was necessitated by the NPA's experience during and after the
Hefer Commission. The Hefer Commission was established to find out
whether the NDPP had been an apartheid agent or had abused his
power. However Judge Joos Hefer found that Ngcuka was "probably
never" an apartheid agent. Advocate Ngcuka said such new challenges
necessitated that prosecutors were capacitated with new skills, so
as not to relent when taking unpopular decisions against high
profile people and crime syndicates. "It is not enough just to be
technically competent. If there is one lesson we must learn from
the Hefer Commission as an organisation and as individuals, is that
if we are to deliver, we must be fearless. "We must become fearless
executives, afraid of nothing and willing to overcome every
obstacle put in our way," said the Advocate. Programme manager Paul
Leisegang said prosecutors would undergo 14 months of training in
psychological assessment, self-defence, assertiveness and other
technical operations to ensure they were "fearless in their
prosecutions".
"This is a high capacity building training in self-defence, and
other highly technical operations so that both the mind and body
can withstand anything".
Advocate Ngcuka said the fearless executive programme would arm the
NPA and take the six-year-old organisation out of "our comfort
zones and place us squarely in the zone of discomfort". –
BuaNews.
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