LETTER: NPA move both encouraging and sinister
The NPA cannot be reformed quickly enough; a new institution with carefully vetted personnel and no ‘saboteurs’ is required 20 October 2020 – 13:29 https://spkt.io/a/1160507 Claudi Mailovich’s article on National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) head Shamila Batohi’s desire to break the shackles of executive oversight and “final responsibility” of the justice minister is both encouraging and […]
The practicalities of creating capable ‘corruption busters’ for SA
Opinionista • Paul Hoffman • 15 October 2020 The ANC NEC’s proposal to set up a corruption-busting body needs to be acted on. Taking the investigation of grand corruption away from the Hawks to a new agency will relieve the Hawks of a mandate that they have never been equipped and enabled to discharge and […]
LETTER: NPA doesn’t have resources to deal with grand corruption
Impunity is strangling the SA economy and saboteurs deployed during the state-capture years still lurk in the ranks of the NPA 13 October 2020 – 13:19 Thursday’s long awaited and much debated announcement in parliament of the presidential economic recovery plan refers. Restoring business confidence and promoting public trust in the capability of strong institutions […]
How many times can the Public Protector lose in court?
Paul Hoffman | 09 October 2020 Paul Hoffman writes on Busisiwe Mkhwebane’s latest legal setback A Full Bench of the Western Cape High Court has sent the Public Protector packing, again, refusing her all forms of interdictory relief she claimed against both president and parliament in Part A of her case. The court also warned […]
ANC largesse ensures the right to equality remains a far-fetched dream
Using race as a surrogate for disadvantage means BEE benefits the least disadvantaged 12 October 2020 – 18:11 Paul Hoffman https://spkt.io/a/1131818 Graphic: DOROTHY KGOSI The question of equality has plagued thoughtful South Africans for decades, from the constitutional drafters in the early 1990s to “fallists”, academics and Zoom attendees of September’s DA policy conference. But […]
Justice Better Late Than Never
00:10:58 It’s been a moment that a crime-fatigued nation has long been holding its breath for – high noon for the alleged masterminds of fraud and grand corruption as the Hawks’ fight against graft and state capture kicks into top gear. The flurry of arrests in KwaZulu-Natal, Gauteng and the Free State of those suspected […]
Sizing up the NPA: where’s the corruption-busting agency SA needs? Paul Hoffman
9th October 2020 by Claire Badenhorst Long has corruption-busting advocate Paul Hoffman maintained that the NPA is unfit to deal with complex corruption cases in South Africa. He firmly believes that it will take years to fix all of the problems – years that our country does not have. Hoffman says it’s time to implement […]
Ace is right about the Hollywood cop style of effecting arrests
It is rare for Ace Magashule, ANC Secretary General, to get it right on any topic relating to the accountability element of the rule of law. His aversion to what he calls “Hollywood cop arrests” by the Hawks is however right on the money. Here’s why: The State in SA must respect, protect, promote and […]
Who enabled the Guptas?
As the contents of the Pandora’s Box of scandalous information tumbles out at the hearings of the Zondo Commission of Inquiry it is currently popular to hear of politicians in the Free State being blamed for enabling the Gupta family’s attempt to capture the State in SA. It is historically clear that Rome was sacked […]
