By STEPHEN GROOTES

We have all become so accustomed to fights around control of our justice system, the intelligence services and the police, that sometimes big announcements pass almost without notice. On Saturday afternoon, the Presidency announced that it would continue with the inquiry into the fitness for office of the National Director of Public Prosecutions, Mxolisi Nxasana, six months after the first announcement was made. No matter what happens from here on in, it seems impossible to believe that the National Prosecuting Authority is not going to be even weaker, at the end of this process, than it is now. If that is indeed possible.

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