# Ramaphosa appoints Shamila Batohi as National Director of Public Prosecutions

Date: 2019

## The fact

In February 2019 [Ramaphosa](/people/cyril-ramaphosa) appointed Shamila Batohi as NDPP to rebuild the NPA after state capture.

## Context

Zondo sat as parent weather. Neighbouring 2018 rotation is the parent office. He did not sit as every prosecutor.

2018 oath is the parent. Phala Phala nolle 2024 is a child.

The President of South Africa heads the national executive, appoints Cabinet, and assents to bills. He does not write an Eskom generation print, an NPA charging decision, a DA court challenge, or a US executive order by himself. Phala Phala cash in a sofa is not a completed criminal verdict unless a court so holds.

## Evidence and sources

The Presidency of South Africa carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is justice: a completed NPA-rebuild appointment after capture.

## What is established and what is not

Established: February 2019 NDPP appointment, independently reported.

Not established: a unique later conviction coefficient from that month, or that Phala Phala was thereby charged.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

The NPA operates independently thereafter. [Zondo](/people/raymond-zondo) evidence sat as parent weather.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Ramaphosa appoints Shamila Batohi as National Director of Public Prosecutions, not a later speech about Ramaphosa appoints Shamila Batohi as National Director of Public Prosecutions.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Ramaphosa appoints Shamila Batohi as National Director of Public Prosecutions on 2019-02-01 is not a licence to treat every later The Presidency of South Africa communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Ramaphosa appoints Shamila Batohi as National Director of Public Prosecutions into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He appointed. The NPA operates independently thereafter. Zondo evidence sat as parent weather. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Cyril Ramaphosa: https://factrail.ai/people/cyril-ramaphosa

## Drivers

- Judicial independence erosion (court capture): https://factrail.ai/drivers/justice-judicial-independence-erosion
- Democratic Resilience: https://factrail.ai/drivers/democratic-resilience

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-safrica-corruption-idUSKCN1PP1N1
- https://www.thepresidency.gov.za/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/za-npa-head-2019