Over the weekend ANC presidential hopeful Lindiwe Sisulu raised the

possibility of granting President Jacob Zuma amnesty from prosecution for all

the crimes he is alleged to have committed, in order to “preserve the unity”

of the ANC. Constitutional lawyer, Pierre de Vos writes that the problem with this

suggestion is that there is no valid legal avenue through which President

Zuma could be granted amnesty from prosecution. He says that one would

have to subvert the Rule of Law and the constitutionally guaranteed independence of the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) in order to do so.