Appointment of NPA CEO approved

As the CEO, Van Rensburg, will become an accounting officer for the NPA and the role of this delegated function is to ensure the effective and efficient management and use of NPA resources to achieve set objectives and to ensure good governance.

Van Rensburg, who has been acting since April 2011, is a prosecutor by profession, grew up within the legal fraternity ranks and has held various management positions as early as 1997. These include a Senior Public Prosecutor in Kempton Park, Boksburg and Port Elizabeth Magistrate's Courts.

At the establishment of the NPA, she was nominated by the Director of Public Prosecutions at the time to participate in the national team that was responsible for the development of the first Prosecution Policy Directives for the NPA. She has also served as the regional head of the now defunct Directorate of Special Operations in East London, Eastern Cape.

During her tenure as acting CEO, the NPA achieved unqualified audit status with matters of emphasis to note.

"Adv van Rensburg is well versed in national priorities both for government and the NPA and has a sound knowledge of the strategic objectives, indicators and targets for the NPA. She has been an advisor to the NPA on Enterprise Performance Management for a number of years," NPA spokesperson Kholiswa Mdhluli said.