The state of the nation address was all smoke and mirrors, lacking substance, that needed a good stir 15 February 2020 – 09:28 paul hoffman President Cyril Ramaphosa delivering his state of the nation address on February 13 2020. Picture: SUNDAY TIMES/ESA ALEXANDER This is what President Cyril Ramaphosa said about countering grand corruption during […]
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Cyril kicks the corruption can further down the road to ruin.
By Paul Hoffman Paul Hoffman The long-awaited SONA2020 brought no comfort to those who want this year to be the “Year of the Orange Overalls” for the corrupt. This happy state is what Archbishop Thabo Makgoba called for during his Christmas Eve sermon last December. Instead, the President kicked the can further down the road […]
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Why there will be no immediate issue of those orange overalls
Opinionista • Paul Hoffman • 13 February 2020 The Ahmed Kathrada Foundation and friends grumbling about the ANC being soft on corruption have ignored the inconvenient truth that the ANC has steadfastly ignored binding remedial action required by the highest court in the country. This stance needs to change if any positive progress is to […]
Attempt to declare Public Protector unfit via judiciary violates separation of powers, court hears
By Greg Nicolson• 12 February 2020 No one in court on Tuesday questioned the scathing judgments against Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane. What was in question was whether a court could rule her unfit for office or whether that’s the exclusive role of Parliament. Advocate Pat Ellis found himself in a difficult position at the North […]
Open letter to the ANC NEC: Fixation with National Democratic Revolution is failing South Africa
Opinionista • Paul Hoffman • 11 February 2020 President Cyril Ramaphosa is only allowed to do what you in the NEC allow him to do: no more, no less. You, or a good number of the comrades who serve with you on the NEC, are preventing the president from getting on with the job of […]
Court bid over Mkhwebane’s fitness to hold office a ‘plot’ for her speedy removal, says lawyer
2020-02-11 17:43 Alex Mitchley Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane. (City Press) A court bid to declare Public Protector advocate Busisiwe Mkhwebane unfit to hold office is moot and should be dismissed as a parliamentary process is already afoot, her legal team has argued. Anti-corruption pressure group Accountability Now approached the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria on […]
LETTER: State’s overdue task
06 February 2020 – 16:44 The growing clamour in favour of the creation of a capable state in SA is putting pressure on the government to just do it, given the constraints that persistent symptoms of state capture pose for the reform-minded. There is one fundamental reform without which the establishment of a capable state […]
An open letter to the legal profession: We must do the right thing – before things fall apart
Opinionista • Omphemetse S Sibanda • 7 February 2020 Tension exists in our legal system in a way that the framers of our Constitution never imagined. This open letter is not an unwarranted criticism, but rather a call to do what is right. To members of the legal profession: I owe gratitude to Paul Hoffman […]
The Hlophe conundrum: Action required
Opinionista • Paul Hoffman • 5 February 2020 The situation in the Western Cape High Court, where Deputy Judge President Patricia Goliath is at war with her boss, Judge President John Hlophe, is approaching a state of nuclear meltdown. Is it expecting too much to assume that the Judicial Service Commission would treat this as […]
