{"id":6172,"date":"2011-12-16T00:22:09","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T22:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/12\/s-africa-anti-graft-chief-quits-in-blow-for-zuma\/"},"modified":"2011-12-16T00:22:09","modified_gmt":"2011-12-15T22:22:09","slug":"s-africa-anti-graft-chief-quits-in-blow-for-zuma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/s-africa-anti-graft-chief-quits-in-blow-for-zuma\/","title":{"rendered":"S.Africa anti-graft chief quits in blow for Zuma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Special Investigating Unit head resigns after 2 weeks<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Appointment drew criticism that Zuma was promoting allies<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Latest in series of high-profile departures<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Marius Bosch<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>JOHANNESBURG, Dec 15 (Reuters) &#8211; The head of one of<br \/>\nSouth Africa&#8217;s top anti-corruption agencies, widely seen as an<br \/>\nally of President Jacob Zuma, has resigned after only two weeks<br \/>\nin the job, the latest in a series of high-profile departures.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Opponents had accused Zuma of encroaching on the judiciary&#8217;s<br \/>\nindependence by naming Willem Heath, his former legal adviser,<br \/>\nto lead the Special Investigating Unit.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Justice Minister Jeff Radebe told Talk Radio 702&#8217;s<br \/>\nEyewitness News on Thursday that Heath, a former judge, tendered<br \/>\nhis resignation after an investigation into comments he made<br \/>\nabout former president Thabo Mbeki to a newspaper.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It became very clear that the utterances of Advocate Heath<br \/>\nhad created a perception, rightly or wrongly, that he cannot be<br \/>\nindependent in terms of helping the Special Investigating Unit,&#8221;<br \/>\nRadebe said, adding that Zuma saw the comments as a serious<br \/>\nmatter.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Heath suggested in the interview that Mbeki had been behind<br \/>\nrape and corruption charges laid against Zuma.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Special Investigating Unit head resigns after 2 weeks * Appointment drew criticism that Zuma was promoting allies * Latest in series of high-profile departures By Marius Bosch JOHANNESBURG, Dec 15 (Reuters) &#8211; The head of one of South Africa&#8217;s top anti-corruption agencies, widely seen as an ally of President Jacob Zuma, has resigned after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-6172","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}