Paul Hoffman | 10 July 2025 Paul Hoffman says our system for preventing, detecting, investigating and prosecuting the corrupt is not working optimally The commissioner of police in KZN has raised his head above the parapet to voice his concerns around the trajectory...
The impact of the Mkhwanazi revelations on the future of the GNU
The KZN Police Commissioner put the cat among the political pigeons on Sunday. His essential complaint is that the executive branch of government has interfered illegally with the work of the police by sidelining investigations that have the potential to expose...
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...
A national dialogue can work … if the right players discuss the right topics
The official announcement of the upcoming national dialogue has been met with derision and disgust in some quarters. A long litany of gripes and groans can be gleaned from media reports. With a budget for the dialogue estimated at R700 million, the EFF describes the...
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...
The implementation of NACAC’s current recommendations will lead to litigation and tears
Paul Hoffman | 29 May 2025 Paul Hoffman says multi-agency approach currently favoured by council has been tried for years, without success On 14 May 2025 the leadership of the National Anti-Corruption Advisory Council made a cryptic presentation to the Justice...
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...
Time to jettison the NDR ideology holding South Africa hostage | IRR Webinar
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...
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....
NACAC caught between rock of constitutionalism and hard place of SA politics
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...
MK and EFF get lost in translation on Paul Pretorius SC
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...