By Simon Nare
Former North West Director of Public Prosecutions, Advocate Sello Maema, has told the Nkabinde Inquiry that former National Director of Public Prosecutions, Advocate Shamila Batohi, failed in her duty to act against Durban’s now-disbanded Cato Manor Organised Crime Unit, which was allegedly hired to systematically kill rival taxi association members in KwaZulu-Natal.
The unit came under intense scrutiny in December 2011 after the Sunday Times published a series of reports alleging that officers attached to Cato Manor were operating as a “hit squad.”
The newspaper retracted the articles in 2018 and published a formal apology, saying it acknowledged the stories were inaccurate, and that the journalists who wrote them were “manipulated by those with ulterior motives”.
Maema was testifying before the inquiry probing the fitness of South Gauteng Director of Public Prosecutions, Advocate Andrew Chauke, to hold office.
He said Batohi should have intervened while she was
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