Advocate Tembeka Ngcukaitobi SC has turned the spotlight on outgoing National Director of Public Prosecutions NDPP Advocate Shamila Batohi over the so-called Cato Manor death squad video at the Nkabinde Enquiry. The video, filmed by former police reservist Aristides Danikas, shows a man with a gunshot wound lying on the floor, pleading for medical assistance, before allegedly being left to die by former Major General Johan Booysen and members of the Cato Manor Police Unit . Ngcukaitobi argues the footage, which raised allegations of extrajudicial killings, was widely known and serious enough to require urgent intervention by the NDPP. Despite this, Batohi testifies she was advised there was insufficient evidence to prosecute the unit on racketeering charges. Ngcukaitobi puts it to her that the failure to act decisively at the time amounted to a dereliction of duty.
Nkabinde Inquiry Chauke's legal team cross examines Batohi
