Nomgcobo Jiba was the Deputy National Director of Public Prosecutions in South Africa.
13 Facts About Nomgcobo Jiba
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Nomgcobo Jiba obtained her LLB from Walter Sisulu University in 1989 and went on to obtain her master's degree in Commercial Law in 1996.
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Nomgcobo Jiba resigned from government in 1997 to work for the legal firm Qunta Ntsebeza in Cape Town so as to work towards becoming an attorney, qualifying in 1998.
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The Investigating Directorate was disbanded in 2001 and replaced by the Scorpions whereupon Nomgcobo Jiba was appointed Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions.
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Nomgcobo Jiba was appointed Senior Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions in 2006.
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In December 2010 Nomgcobo Jiba was promoted to Deputy National Director of Public Prosecutions at the National Prosecuting Authority, a position that gave her oversight of all prosecutorial decisions made by the state.
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On 15 September 2016 Nomgcobo Jiba was struck off the role of advocates by the North Gauteng High Court for her role in the handling of a number of politically related cases.
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Booysen alleged that Nomgcobo Jiba attempted to set him up so as to stop him from investigating specific cases of corruption involving president Zuma's family.
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Nomgcobo Jiba was criticised by the courts for her role in handling the Zuma "spy tapes" scandal.
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On 26 April 2019, it was announced that Nomgcobo Jiba had been fired by president Cyril Ramaphosa acting on the recommendation of the Mokgoro inquiry.
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In 2015 the head of the NPA, Shaun Abrahams, announced that the case against Nomgcobo Jiba would be dropped.
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Booysen told the Mokgoro inquiry that the reason he had been charged by Nomgcobo Jiba was because he got in the way of the business interests of former president Jacob Zuma's son Edward.
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Former BOSASA executive, Angelo Agrizzi, testified to the Zondo Commission into state corruption that Nomgcobo Jiba was receiving payments from BOSASA to ensure that corruption charges against the company would not be pursued by the National Director of Public Prosecutions.