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Top prosecutor to be fired

South Africa's top prosecutor, who was suspended after he pursued corruption charges against both the national police chief and the head of the country's ruling party, should be fired, the president said yesterday.

President Kgalema Motlanthe's nationally broadcast statement came more than a year after his predecessor suspended chief prosecutor Vusi Pikoli after Pikoli issued a warrant for the arrest of the nation's top cop.