Mokotedi Mpshe, acting head of South Africa's National Prosecuting Authority (NPA), speaks at a press conference in Pretoria on April 6, 2009. Mpshe, announced that the NPA was abandoning the prosecution of Jacob Zuma, the party leader who is due to become the country's president after elections later this month, because the NPA's top investigator was suspected of manipulating the timing of the case against Zuma in late 2007. (Alexander Joe, AFP)
