“I have discouraged my children from conducting business with government or with any state-owned entity. I have told them that if I become aware of any illegality of corruption in their business activities, I will be the first to report them to the authorities.” [President Ramaphosa in parliament last November, answering a question from the […]
Road Safety is a Human Rights Issue
By Paul Hoffman* The carnage on South Africa’s roads has reached alarming proportions. According to the Medical Research Council some 14,000 people lose their lives on our roads each year. The cost to the country of road accidents is in the region of R40bn per annum. If the scourge of death on the road is […]
The constitutional challenges facing the prescription of assets
Opinionista • Paul Hoffman • 15 September 2019 Until all alternative avenues have been properly explored it will be easy to argue that ‘less restrictive means’ to achieve the purpose of prescribing assets have not been tried. Somewhat vaguely, the President has confirmed that government is considering the “prescription of assets” as a way of […]
CR17 campaign funding – facts and law.
A report which first appeared in the Cape Argus and was later summarised by Legalbrief deserves careful consideration by those who want to believe that the ANC is not anything more than a criminal enterprise. The report appears to be credible, the words attributed to Meshack Radebe have not been repudiated and the response of […]
The dawning of the age of entitlement, impunity and arrogance.
The “reluctant” president of SA, accused of being “missing in action” in the midst of escalating femicide, violent xenophobic outbreaks and abuse of children, promised a “new dawn” when he replaced his predecessor. Welcome to the new dawn of the age of entitlement, impunity and arrogance. (EIA). Why is it that so many men feel […]
Accountability Now lays criminal complaint against former senior advocate
Cape Town, 4 September 2019: Accountability Now laid corruption charges against Seth Nthai, a former senior advocate who practiced at the Pretoria and Johannesburg Bars on 3 September 2019. Nthai was struck off the roll of advocates in 2013 for conducting himself unprofessionally and is in the process of applying for his re-enrolment. The complaint […]
The ‘Make South Africa Work Again’ Manifesto
Opinionista • Paul Hoffman • 19 August 2019 • DailyMaverick We need a broad consensus on what needs to be done to rescue the country from failure as a modern state. Accountability Now offers a draft Manifesto to make South Africa Work Again. The number one concern of most adult people living in South Africa […]
Land expropriation, Land grabs only possible with 75% majority vote in Parliament – legal expert
14th August 2019 by Jackie Cameron Paul Hoffman is an advocate who is part of the team at Accountability Now, an organisation devoted to public litigation. Hoffman takes aim at columnist Frans Cronjé, for he’s showing very little faith in the power of the Constitution to save us all from some of the “loonier excesses of […]
Opinionista • Paul Hoffman • 10 August 2019 • DailyMaverick Hoffman minimises Mkhwebane’s wriggle-room 12th August 2019 by Chris Bateman While the court judgements pile up against her, the latest being President Cyril Ramaphosa’s interdict to prevent her ordered censure by him of his Public Enterprises Minister, Pravin Gordhan, Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane, soldiers on, […]
Are the wheels of criminal justice turning against the corrupt?
28 July 2019 by Paul Hoffman Speaking at an event organised in memory of the late Kader Asmal, our new National Director of Public Prosecutions, Shamila Batoyi, pointed out, quite rightly, that those in the prosecution service over the past ten years (since the demise of the Scorpions) have been attempting to ensure that suspects […]
