By Paul Hoffman Paul Hoffman SC is a director of Accountability Now. Endemic and systemic corruption in South Africa requires a well-trained, seasoned and specialist army, not a cohort of wet-behind-the-ears new recruits to our gutted prosecution service which now has...
LETTER: Investigating Directorate could suffer same fate as Scorpions
15 February 2023 - 17:21 https://spkt.io/e/6258996 The president appears to be hell-bent on making the Investigating Directorate a permanent feature of the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA). By so doing his administration will put SA in a position that will be...
We must support political parties fighting State Capture looting and corruption
By Paul Hoffman 12 Feb 2023 Paul Hoffman SC is a director of Accountability Now. With service delivery crumbling on all levels from local to national, ever-longer interruptions of the electricity supply, trains that do not run, potholes that do not get repaired and...
Paul Hoffman: Avoiding a repeat of the worst excesses of State Capture
14th February 2023by Editor BizNews By Paul Hoffman* “State Capture, and its aftermath, is still having detrimental effects on economic growth. Corruption is endemic and is crippling State-Owned Enterprises, amongst other impacts on the wider economy. Lessons need to...
LETTER: Political parties should take note of the rising anger
Make no mistake about it: the root cause of the malaise in SA is corruption 30 January 2023 - 18:10 Paul Hoffman https://spkt.io/e/6151868 The widespread failure of proper service delivery, the painful revelations in the Zondo state capture commission report, the...
Mantashe is safe as long as Ramaphosa treats him as royal game
24th January 2023by Sandra Laurence Paul Hoffman, SC, a director of Accountability Now, reviews the opinions of various South African commentators on the danger Gwede Mantashe poses to constitutional democracy. On retired judge Dennis Davis’ Judge for Yourself...
LETTER: It’s time to establish a Chapter Nine anti-corruption entity
SA could use the loot it will recover to get the lights working again 20 January 2023 - 18:14 Paul Hoffman SC https://spkt.io/e/6089132 Last Thursday the “Judge for Yourself” television show, hosted by retired judge Dennis Davis, saw Anton du Plessis of the National...
The key to renewal in South Africa is reform of the criminal justice administration
By Paul Hoffman Follow 11 Jan 2023 Paul Hoffman SC is a director of Accountability Now. Until serious corruption is properly addressed, with fealty to the criteria set by the Constitutional Court in the Glenister judgment via the proactive reform of the criminal...
No evidence of capture of the judiciary, says Zondo
The Chief Justice also said the judiciary won't be swayed into making populist decisions that aren’t in line with the law. Lindsay Dentlinger | 09 December 2022 CAPE TOWN - Chief Justice Raymond Zondo said there is no evidence or proof to suggest that the judiciary...
Ramaphosa has a right to review the Phala Phala report: SACP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws8luV0X67U
LETTER: Will Ramaphosa be hoist by his own petard?
Finding of the Ngcobo panel that the president may have contravened section 34 of Precca could prove a big test of the rule of law and the NPA 05 December 2022 The finding of the Ngcobo panel that the president may have contravened section 34 of the Prevention and...
We can prosecute ourselves out of the mess of corruption in which we find ourselves – here’s how
By Paul Hoffman 27 Nov 2022 The debate over reform is long overdue. It is plain to all that the system is not working as it should since the demise of the Scorpions. It was all too easy to close them down, a new anti-corruption approach is needed. 0:00 /...
LETTER: Anti-corruption unit needs Chapter 9 protection
The state is obliged to set up a corruption-busting entity that complies with the Glenister criteria 24 November 2022 The loot of state capture is measured in trillions of rand and thousands of crooked operators are involved. Yet the recoveries so far are measured in...
LETTER: Wake up, Mac: we’ve already drafted those bills
Accountability Now’s proposals have not yet received any response from the executive 21 November 2022 Mac Maharaj, former spokesman for Jacob Zuma when he was president, and before that the Mandela-era transport minister, recently emerged from retirement (he was born...
Corruption Scorecard | Response to Zondo Commission Report | 20 November
https://www.enca.com/shows/corruption-scorecard-response-zondo-commission-report-20-november
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