SACP+on+Mohamed+and+Basson+judgements




 * Friday, 09 August 2005**

=**SACP statement on High Court judgement on Scorpions’ raid of lawyer’s offices and Constitutional Court ruling on Wouter Basson Case**=

The SACP is deeply concerned at today’s high court ruling that the Scorpions’ raid into the offices of Ms J Mohamed, Cde Zuma’s attorney, was illegal. Of even more serious concern is the further judgement that the Scorpions obtained the warrant under false pretences and that the manner in which the raid was conducted was also illegal. This vindicates our condemnation of the behaviour of the Scopions in general, and particularly towards Cde Zuma.

This is indeed a serious development. The SACP is of the view that it is time now that the recommendations of the Public Protector and the Hefer Commission in relation to the National Directorate of Public Prosecutions and the Scorpions are fully implemented. These recommendations included calling upon parliament to call the NDPP to account, including the establishment and urgent convening of the Ministerial Coordinating Committee to determine policy guidelines on the functioning of the Scorpions that would prevent a recurrence of the improprieties referred to in the Public Protector’s report. In addition the Hefer Commission had directed that media leaks from NDPP must also be investigated. It is indeed disturbing that some of these key recommendations seem not to have been comprehensively followed.

The SACP is concerned that unless something is urgently done, the confidence of our people in these very important organs of justice will be eroded. This illegal action by the scorpions further reinforces the perception that Cde Zuma will not have a fair trial and that his is a political trial.

The SACP also welcomes the Constitutional Court ruling that the state may re-open the case against Wouter Basson. This case is important in order to get into the bottom of some of the alleged atrocities perpertrated by different state organs of the apartheid regime.


 * Issued by: SACP**


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