https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0pqY-k-BVI&t=1s President Cyril Ramaphosa will be submitting his response to the state capture inquiry's recommendations. Parliament says the president’s response will outline the steps government is taking to implement the Zondo...
Deciphering the Zuma legal playbook with Adv. Paul Hoffman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_MDlbNTz7g Former President Zuma continues to employ his infamous Stalingrad legal strategy, using every available avenue to stall the start of his arms deal corruption trial. Whether it’s seeking to privately prosecute state...
LETTER: NPA no place for new criminal justice entity
16 October 2022 - 19:07 While it is good news that the justice minister is considering reform of the criminal justice administration aimed at better capacitating it to deal with corruption, it would be a terrible mistake to locate the envisaged new entity in the...
Where should our corruption busters be located?
Paul Hoffman Paul Hoffman says it would be a mistake to locate the new anti-corruption entity within the NPA 17 October 2022 There is a growing consensus among political parties that there is an urgent need to reform the criminal justice administration so as to better...
Implications of amendments to the final State Capture Report: Adv Paul Hoffman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7I7IekM8yE Civil Society organisation Accountability Now says it would have been valuable for the country if the State Capture Report corrected the error made in the initial report on the status of the joint judgment of former Deputy...
Ramaphosa’s responses to Zondo recommendations must be constitutionally compliant
By Paul Hoffman Follow 16 Oct 2022 The response of Cabinet to the recommendations made in the six tranches of the report of the State Capture Commission of Inquiry is likely to be announced in parliament by the President before the end of the month of October...
The President`s response to the Zondo Commission
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivItDT_TV1A The State Capture Commission, which was headed Chief Justice Raymond Zondo, then deputy chief justice, unearthed voluminous data on corrupt and unethical dealings in the country. The cost of the looting of state-owned...
Limp-wristed crime fighting is SA’s greylisting downfall
11th October 2022by Michael Appel South Africa is on the brink of greylisting not because we don’t have the ability or legislative means by which to effectively combat crime – there’s just very little political will to do so. Yes, there has been the purposeful erosion...
LETTER: No lipstick on cadre deployment pig, please
09 October 2022 - 16:29 David Lewis makes good points regarding the well-documented abuse of the overconcentration of power in the hands of the president (“Curb the president’s powers of appointment to avoid state capture in future”, October 6). In so doing he is in...
SA must take urgent steps to avoid being greylisted by the Financial Action Task Force
By Paul Hoffman 02 Oct 2022 Paul Hoffman SC is a director of Accountability Now. Xolisile Khanyile, the director of the Financial Intelligence Centre, says in spite of speculation to the contrary, SA is going to be greylisted because it hasn’t met the requirements set...
Attorney Colette Ashton
Colette Ashton is a civil society lawyer, a consultant to the Institute for Security Studies and the newest director of Accountability Now. She holds a master’s degree from the UN-founded International Anti-Corruption Academy in Vienna.
Judge Lee Bozalek – Trustee
Judge Lee Bozalek is a retired member of the Western Cape High Court. He practiced as an attorney and advocate in Cape Town before being elevated to the Bench there. He is best known for the decision in the case concerning the invalidity of nuclear power procurement...
Attorney Mike Wagener – CEO
Mike Wagener is an attorney in private practice in Cape Town. During his legal career, which began with articles of clerkship in Johannesburg, he has been a member of both the Johannesburg and Cape Bars and a civil magistrate in Cape Town.
Judge Ian Farlam – Trustee
Judge Ian Farlam is a retired Judge of Appeal who is best known for his work on the Marikana Commission of Inquiry. He started his legal career as a prosecutor, practised as a member of the Cape Bar until he was elevated to the Cape Bench before promotion to the...
LETTER: ANC leaders must be held to account
28 September 2022 - 15:12 All members of the ANC are required, in terms of the party’s constitution, to swear: “I will defend the unity and integrity of the [ANC] and its principles, and combat any tendency towards disruption and factionalism.” Rule 5.2.7 requires all...
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