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First Female Top Prosecutor - South Africa
December 6 , 2018
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- President Cyril Ramaphosa named Indian-origin lawyer Shamila Batohi to head South Africa's prosecuting authority.
- Batohi, the first female to occupy the role and she will start her new role as the National Director of Public Prosecutions (NDPP) in February 2019.
- She is a former prosecutions chief in KwaZulu-Natal province and has served as senior adviser to the prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC) since 2009.
- In 1995, she was part of a high-level team appointed by Nelson Mandela to investigate apartheid-era hit squads.
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