The government on Thursday appointed a little-known police official to lead a new law enforcement unit in South Africa, which has one of the highest rates of violent crime in the world and has been rocked by corruption scandals. The official, Anwa Dramat, currently deputy police chief in the Western Cape Province, will become head of the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigations when it begins on July 1. The country’s governing African National Congress party disbanded an elite investigating team known as the Scorpions in October after its graft investigation into the A.N.C. leader Jacob Zuma, now South Africa’s president. Critics have accused Mr. Zuma’s party of pushing through legislation to disband the unit out of vengeance.
Source: New York Times
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