by @ifaisa | May 31, 2024 | Chapter 9, General
By Paul Hoffman The final outcome of the elections may have the effect of dampening the ANC’s enthusiasm for the Idac legislation, which is likely to be struck down as unconstitutional if it is challenged in public interest litigation. On the eve of the elections for...
by @ifaisa | May 13, 2025 | Chapter 9, General
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 @ifaisa | May 5, 2025 | Chapter 9, General
Paul Hoffman says it is politically suicidal to be seen to be opposing the adoption of anti-corruption laws 1. Why is so much fuss made about corruption in SA? The Constitutional Court has provided the best short answer to this question given the context of what the...
by @ifaisa | Apr 29, 2025 | Chapter 9, General
By Paul Hoffman The end of the Scorpions marked the beginning of the State Capture project undertaken during the two Jacob Zuma presidencies. No one today seriously regards the Hawks as any part of the solution to the challenges of grand corruption. The scourge of...
by @ifaisa | Mar 9, 2025 | Chapter 9, General
In the carefully chosen words of the Constitutional Court, “(t)here can be no gainsaying that corruption threatens to fell at the knees virtually everything we hold dear and precious in our hard-won constitutional order”. These words are in paragraph 166 of the joint...
