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Bananarama!
‘Redeployment’
of prosecutor raises COSATU’s concern The
Congress of
South African Trade Unions shares the concern of the Public Servants
Association
over the apparent demotion of state prosecutor, Andre Lambrecht, who
was told
on Tuesday, 23 March 2010, that he had been "relieved of his managerial
duties and told to work as a prosecutor in court." This
followed his
alleged refusal to obey a verbal instruction from the Acting Director
of Public
Prosecutions in Gauteng, Gladstone Maema, to drop the state’s
opposition
to bail being granted to Molemo ‘Jub Jub’ Maarohanye’ in
Protea Magistrates’ Court. He refused to execute the order unless he
received it in writing, which he did not, and proceeded to oppose Jub
Jub's
bail application. Maema
is alleged
to have reported to have told Lambrecht that he was passing on an order
from
the National Prosecuting Authority Director, Menzi Simelane. COSATU
agrees
with PSA’s Manie de Clercq that the NPS’s contention that Lambrecht
was merely ‘redeployed’ is ‘nonsense’ and agrees that
it is strange that his redeployment happened on the same day he refused
to obey
the NPA’s instruction. The
PSA has now declared a dispute and has referred the matter to the
Bargaining Council for mediation and conciliation. COSATU will await
the outcome with
great interest. If the ‘redeployment’ is confirmed, it will
indicate that we are another step further down the road to a banana
republic.
Patrick Craven (National Spokesperson) Congress of South African Trade Unions 1-5 Leyds Cnr Biccard Streets Braamfontein, 2017 P.O. Box 1019 Johannesburg, 2000 SOUTH AFRICA Tel: +27 11 339-4911/24 Fax: +27 11 339-5080/6940/ 086 603 9667 Cell: 0828217456 E-Mail: [email protected] -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . To unsubscribe from this group, send email to yclsa-eom-forum+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE ME" as the subject. |
