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Paul Hoffman Jul 15, 2026 For ordinary South Africans, especially those who are unemployed or under-employed, jobs, personal security and corruption are polled as among their main preoccupations. Of the three, corruption is pre-eminent, because it is pivotal to jobs...

Accountability Now’s head of projects Paul Hoffman speaks to Newzroom’s Xoli Mngambi about President Cyril Ramaphosa’s decision to extend the Madlanga Commission’s final report deadline from 31 August to 16 November.

Dear Editor, The appointment of Dinah Pule as minister of social development by president Ramaphosa is vulnerable to judicial review because it lacks rationality. Only the Constitutional Court is empowered by the constitution to review the decision as it involves a...

 Paul Hoffman Jul 6, 2026 According to legend, the Roman emperor Caligula decided to appoint his horse, a magnificent Spanish stallion called Incitatus, as proconsul during a particularly trying time around the dawn of the Christian era. A peek at the history.com...

 Paul Hoffman Jul 3, 2026 Dinah Pule was in the Zuma cabinet, but lost her position in politics over scandals around abuse of public funds on foreign travel with her boyfriend, and the acquisition of a pair of wildly expensive, red-soled Christian Louboutin designer...

The issue of dealing effectively with the corrupt in our midst is the most significant and urgent unaddressed issue of the yet-to-be-resolved issues raised by Cyril Ramaphosa at the beginning of his first term as President. By Paul Hoffman 2 Jul 2026 Of course, there...

Dear Editor, Your correspondent STUART THEOBALD | Did South Africa pass a crime test it didn’t deserve to? (24 June) raises the possibility of SA being placed on the FATF “greylist” again, having escaped the setbacks greylisting brings only last year in October. The...

Civil society organisation Accountability Now is calling for the Investigating Directorate Against Corruption (IDAC) to be shut down, following renewed tensions with senior police officials. It comes after Crime Intelligence boss Dumisani Khumalo lodged a complaint,...

Two inquiries, one whistleblower, General Mkhwanazi, and only one question Paul Hoffman asks who will guard the guardians in SA If one asks AI the obvious question: What will the Madlanga Commission make of General Mkhwanazi’s complaints? The answer it gives is also...

Unlike many other countries in Africa, SA has a home-made Constitution under the rule of law which was negotiated painstakingly by the politicians and the people active in politics in SA during the period between 2 February 1990, when FW made his speech ending...

Dear Editor, A week ago, Democratic Alliance (DA) leader Geordin Hill-Lewis asked president Ramaphosa to reshuffle key DA members of the national cabinet. Over the weekend, the president was reported to have said that “ministers are appointees of the president… only...

Paul Hoffman Jun 19, 2026 Since the demise of the parliamentary sovereignty of the white component of SA and its replacement with constitutional democracy under the rule of law, there have been three two-term presidents in SA. Thabo Mbeki, who succeeded one-term...