Letters

Willem Heath wants the Zuma trial abandoned “in the public interest” ahead of the elections (NPA must ask itself how Zuma case will help SA, February 13). So close to the temptations of power, does he think the public wants the incoming president more free from distraction than corruption?

He argues the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) must justify a trial. The African National Congress made that easy when it turned Carl Niehaus's personal tragedy of bad debt, broken promises, cover-ups, deceit, flash, fraud, favours sold and lies told into a national horror by knowingly hiring him and hiding his crimes. With a ruling party in moral free fall, the only quality control left in politics is jail time.

The writer was a judge, a middle man for Brett Kebble and is now counsel for the accused. If public interest really motivates him, act pro bono and get his client to the dock. That saves taxpayers millions.

Errol Goetsch
Johannesburg

With acknowledgements to Errol Goetsch and Business Day.