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[TOP STORY] Can the new NPA leader restore confidence in prosecutions?

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‘It is an incredibly complex organisation, and it needs somebody who has the kind of management experience at that high level, which I think Andy Mothibi brings, and I don't think that any of the candidates who were interviewed adequately possessed,’ says Lawson Naidoo, executive secretary of the Council for the Advancement of the South African Constitution.

7 Jan 7AM English South Africa Business News · Politics

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