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Now the justice department is keeping the record of the Zondo state capture commission away from the NPA 10 June 2025 - 13:23 During the course of a wide-ranging 27 minute interview with Newsroom Afrika, national director of public prosecutions Shamila Batohi insisted...

Staying on that story, Democratic Alliance (DA) Member of Parliament on the Committee for Justice and Constitutional Development, Damien Klooper, says the National Prosecuting Authority is failing at the most basic level, with the Timothy Omotoso case being the latest...

By Paul Hoffman The brambles of fact-checking, the recriminations from the commentariat, the revealed misconceptions in Washington and the need for a reset of relations between South Africa and the US all suggest that constructive communication is now vital. What if...

Stream Video Here Join Anthea Jeffery, IRR Head of Policy Research, for the launch of her latest IRR report: "Enemy of Growth: The Ideology Holding South Africa Hostage". Jeffery and Hermann Pretorius, IRR Head of Strategic Communications, will discuss: - National...

No legislation for jobs nor any effective policy changes have emerged The whole world watched the smackdown televised infotainment in the Oval Office last Wednesday and now knows for sure that: SA is a dangerous place for its whole population, not only white farmers....

The rock of constitutionalism is the foundation of the new or post-liberation order in SA. The Constitution and the rule of law are regarded as supreme, and these basic parameters are recorded in Section 1 of Chapter One of the Constitution itself. This means that our...

Paul Hoffman on political interference masquerading as concern for the rule of law Last year Paul Pretorius SC and Matthew Chaskalson SC, both Zondo Commission evidence leaders, accepted temporary assignments with the NPA to help boost its skills and capacity in...

Nobody better placed than Zondo commission’s evidence leader to aid the National Prosecuting Authority The EFF has issued a media statement containing a scurrilous attack on the efforts of the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) to beef up its anticorruption capacity...

By Paul Hoffman The economy of South Africa has been in the doldrums roughly since Thabo Mbeki left office in 2008. If South Africa had maintained the solid growth achieved during his presidency most of the problems of poverty, inequality and joblessness would not now...

By Paul Hoffman In many countries around the world there is no shortage of laws against corruption. The challenge is to create a governance framework that is itself corruption-resilient, so the laws can be enforced efficiently and effectively by personnel of...