Adam Catzavelos is facing a crimen injuria charge after he recorded a video clip while holidaying in Greece last year, gloating about the absence of black people on the beach.
Former prosecutions boss Mxolisi Nxasana said that the campaign to oust him went as far as Zuma, who was then the president.
Last year, a video went viral when Catzavelos posed on camera on a Greek island giving a parody weather report where he used the k-word to describe how there were no black people on the beach.
Mxolisi Nxasana accused former acting head of the NPA Nomgcobo Jiba of running a campaign to dig for dirt on him to get him removed from office. He said he had a recording to this effect.
The Presidency says President Ramaphosa established the investigating directorate on the recommendations of prosecutions boss Shamiela Batohi and the ministers of police as well as justice and correctional services.
President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced the new National Director of Public Prosecutions as Advocate Shamila Batohi at the Union Buildings.
The five nominees have been selected from 11 candidates who were interviewed at the Union Buildings from Wednesday to Friday this past week.
Advocates Shamiela Batohi and Simphiwe Mlotshwa made the comments during the interview at the Union Buildings on Friday.
Advocate Shamiela Batohi made the comments during her interview at the Union Buildings on Friday for the position of National Director of Public Prosecutions.
The Constitutional Court judgment on Mxolisi Nxasana and Shaun Abrahams shows concern that the independence of the country's prosecuting authority has been compromised.
NDPP has been granted leave to appeal the ruling to reinstate charges against Richard Mdluli.
The Presidency has described the new NPA head as qualified and experienced.
The DA wants the president to be stripped of the power to appoint the head of the NPA.
The Justice Ministry says it cannot put a time frame on when a new NDPP will be appointed.
There are fears that millions could be spent on former NDPP Menzi Simelane.
NDPP Nomgcobo Jiba said the NPA does not take the withdrawal of cases lightly.
Former ConCourt judge Johann Kriegler says President Jacob Zuma’s lawyer has to obey the law.
