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Pikoli Moves Quickly After Hearing His Fate |
| Publication |
Cape Argus |
| Date | 2009-02-17 |
| Reporter | Sapa |
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Vusi Pikoli's lawyers would file papers in the Pretoria High Court on
Tuesday afternoon after hearing that
Parliament officially removed him as national prosecutions chief.
"The papers have been signed and there is
somebody driving to Pretoria," said Pikoli's attorney Aslam Moosajee.
The National Council of Provinces sealed Pikoli's fate when members voted in
favour of a report by a parliamentary review committee that approved the
dismissal, less than a week after the National Assembly did so.
The process was an endorsement of President Kgalema Motlanthe's recommendation
that he be fired on the grounds that he did not fully appreciate security
matters, following an inquiry into his fitness to hold office.
The inquiry said it could not find evidence to support that he was not fit to do
so, but raised the security question.
Moosajee said the court papers would not be made public immediately by himself,
as a courtesy to Motlanthe, who would need time to study them.
Their case would argue that his dismissal violates the Constitutional guarantee
of prosecutorial independence and that there were various irregularities with
his dismissal.
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