PAUL HOFFMAN: Corruption busters needed now, with chapter 9 protection
A body similar to the Scorpions but without its vulnerabilities must be put together to save SA from rampant graft 13 May 2021 – 15:21 Paul Hoffman https://spkt.io/e/1879062 With the Zondo commission reaching the end of its work on the attempted and partial capture of the state during the Zuma era, attention is turning to […]
The A Team’s notes for discussion, during SAHRC and OPP conference on corruption and human rights, regarding reform of anti-corruption machinery of state.
Creation of effective and efficient anti-corruption machinery of state is an international obligation of the state and is underpinned in SA by binding Constitutional Court findings in the Glenister trilogy of cases in which corruption is identified as a human rights issue and the obligatory criteria applicable to the machinery are set out by the […]
Ramaphosa’s final accounting to the Zondo Commission
Paul Hoffman | 04 May 2021 Paul Hoffman says the President needs to be quizzed on what he actually plans to do to correct past errors The President’s final accounting to the Zondo Commission Building on the concessions, the mea culpas and the various benefits of that exact science called “hindsight”, it is now possible […]
LETTER: ANC heads relentlessly towards hegemony
Cadre deployment in state-owned enterprises and public service can never be ‘fair’, whatever the president says 28 April 2021 – 17:37 https://spkt.io/e/1817675 As I write this it is just after 4pm on day one of the interrogation of the president at the Zondo state-capture inquiry. While there is no danger of the president complaining (as […]
Freedom isn’t free, it’s not a gift or an entitlement – it is a responsibility
Opinionista • Paul Hoffman • 27 April 2021 It is the responsibility of the people to ensure that those who govern do so in a constitutionally compliant fashion. This responsibility does not involve a law degree, it involves using the machinery provided to exact accountability from those who govern. Wise use of the vote is […]
AUTUMN NEWSLETTER 2021
counsel in the Bread Cartel Matter which gave rise to the judicial adoption of a general class action in SA law. In the arms deal litigation around the BAe procurement contract he was junior counsel to John Whitehead SC and saw off dilatory tactics on the part of the Defendants. The matter is ongoing.There is […]
The expropriation without compensation concerto reaches a climax as we enter the final movement
Opinionista • Paul Hoffman • 20 April 2021 The official announcement of the public participation process in respect of the introduction of expropriation without compensation into the constitutional order has been published. But, to pass in Parliament, it needs a three-quarters majority, which is pie in the sky for the governing party. https://spkt.io/a/1789954 In the […]
Blurred lines between party and state allow government corruption to thrive – Paul Hoffman
19th April 2021 by Melani Nathan Paul Hoffman revisits the separation that should exist between party and state. The cadre deployment made blatantly evident during testimony at the State Capture Commission creates a detrimental flaw in the way in which government is perceived and how it functions. This flaw has allowed the rot of State […]
