By Paul Hoffman Imagine two shining examples of our national treasure working together against corruption. Listen to this article: BeyondWords Retired judges in South Africa are often referred to as part of the national treasure of the country. Long and distinguished...
Democracy for dummies: No, election winners do not have more rights than election losers
By Paul Hoffman 27 Mar 2023 Politicians who win elections are not allowed to do as they please simply because they command a majority in Parliament. They must pass laws and conduct themselves in a manner that is consistent with the Constitution. Listen to this article...
No trust between state and business, says Remgro CEO
23 March 2023 - 18:33 Kabelo Khumalo https://spkt.io/e/6518465 The government doesn’t always trust the intentions of the private sector, said Remgro’s Jannie Durand on Thursday, calling for greater urgency in implementing reforms that would build private sector...
Leaked PP’s report into Phala Phala questioned
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEiqwxrLQj0&t=6s Accountability Now's executive director Advocate Paul Hoffman weighs in on a leaked Public Protector’s preliminary report into the Phala Phala scandal. Some political parties have questioned the report, which clears...
Calls on government to establish a new chapter 9 institution to fight corruption
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No, Mr President, we don’t have a corruption-buster free of ‘interference, diversion, blockage or subterfuge’
By Paul Hoffman 21 Mar 2023 Paul Hoffman SC is a director of Accountability Now. President Cyril Ramaphosa asserts that those responsible for investigating the allegations of serious corruption at Eskom are independent. They are not. The Hawks are a mere police unit....
Putin should not be invited to visit SA for the August 2023 BRICS meeting in Pretoria
By Richard Goldstone 19 Mar 2023 In light of the arrest warrant issued against President Putin on 17 March 2023 by the International Criminal Court, our Government should under no circumstances invite him to attend the BRICS meeting scheduled to be held in Pretoria in...
LETTER: Properly implementing the Glenister rules is urgent
Presidential attention should be turned to reforming the capacity of the criminal justice administration 20 March 2023 - 16:55 https://spkt.io/e/6493882 Weekend coverage of presidential utterances reveals this gem concerning the revelations by the former CEO of Eskom:...
A reply from a fellow South African to President Ramaphosa’s letter to the nation
By Paul Hoffman 06 Mar 2023 Paul Hoffman SC is a director of Accountability Now. The government’s failure to comply with court rulings on the establishment of a single law enforcement entity that meets the so-called stirs criteria from both the Constitutional Court...
Paul Hoffman: Suggestions to counter SA’s FATF greylisting
27th February 2023by Editor BizNews By Paul Hoffman* The Financial Action Task Force, FATF, which is mainly concerned with keeping a beady eye on the levels of money laundering, terrorism financing and serious corruption in the 200 countries and jurisdictions which it...
Attacks on André de Ruyter – Mbalula takes a leaf out of the Joseph Goebbels playbook
By Paul Hoffman 26 Feb 2023 Has Fikile Mbalula perhaps forgotten that the Zondo Commission names and shames 45 Eskom-related persons for their involvement in the type of irregularities of which André de Ruyter complains? Listen to this article: 0:00 / 14:03BeyondWords...
LETTER: ANC’s ‘hegemonic control’ is lip-service to rule of law
The ANC’s reluctance to comply with the Glenister rulings is because they require it to cede control of the anticorruption entity that would enforce laws against serious corruption 27 February 2023 - 17:31 https://spkt.io/e/6337465 Linda Ensor’s article set out some...
EDITORIAL: SA should have acted before FATF had to step in
27 February 2023 - 05:00 https://spkt.io/e/6331199 After the decision by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) to greylist SA, many will rightly bemoan that we have added this to a long list of self-inflicted harms that have savaged investor confidence and weakened...
Countering the corrupt conference
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlR6gUX7gBQVSZtcFBGR8ULlNZ_K5oxv0 6 Feb 2023: Countering the Corrupt: Reforming the Criminal Justice Administration in South Africa
LETTER: No ‘revolution’ without deployed cadres
SA will be better without cadre deployment as constitutionalism will come into its own 20 February 2023 - 16:47 https://spkt.io/e/6290041 Cadre deployment in the public administration and state-owned enterprises is illegal and unconstitutional, and has been legally...
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