LETTER: Invoking the rule of law decade late

Accelerate the bills pending in parliament for the establishment and enablement of a new Chapter 9 anticorruption commission 09 July 2025 - 15:44 President Cyril Ramaphosa gestures during the Brics Summit 2025 at Museu de Arte Moderna on July 6 2025 in Rio de Janeiro,...

LETTER: Mashatile’s risk of conflict

Deputy president’s sister-in-law is linked to national lottery tender 02 July 2025 - 14:54 Amid concern about the involvement of the twin sister of Paul Mashatile’s wife in the largesse available to the winning bidder of the competition to run the national lottery, it...

The Hawks Keepers have Poisoned our land.

Jacques Pauw, author of two anti-corruption treatises “The President’s Keepers” and “Our Poisoned Land”, has made a fact-filled and sterling contribution to the debate on the future of the criminal justice system in SA in his News24 weekend essay “ Long claw of the...

LETTER: Validity of the IMF loan

An authorising special resolution by the National Assembly is needed Your report on the large R27bn IMF loan apparently secured by the government refers (“David Masondo defends R27bn World Bank loan”, June 24). According to the report, the EFF has objected to the loan...

LETTER: NPA is patently not independent

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...

Adv Paul Hoffman weighs on the NPA track record

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...

Suggested memo from POTUS to PROSA

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...

LETTER: GNU must roll up sleeves

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....

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