The lengthy cold war over claims of alleged racism, nepotism and favouritism at the National Prosecuting Authority's (NPA) East London office has found its way to the Constitutional Court, with the matter set to be decided by a panel of justices on a date yet to be confirmed. The case, from 2019, involved three Indian, a coloured and a white administrator going to court in a bid to interdict a group of five “concerned” black prosecutors and a trade union from making defamatory statements .
Allegations of racism and nepotism at the top of the National Prosecuting Authority in the Eastern Cape have erupted into the public domain in the Grahamstown high court.
Eastern Cape deputy director of public prosecutions Indra Goberdan and four other senior National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) officials have failed in their high court bid to interdict five of their colleagues from defaming them by accusing them of racism, nepotism and favouritism. The case blows wide open race-based grievances, low morale and a dire state of instability in the provincial NPA offices.