That self-effacing “humble newspaperman”, Mondli Makhanya, has outdone himself by penning a couple of choice phrases in his predictions for the ANC’s fortunes in the upcoming municipal elections. As the comments are tucked away at the end of a long Daily Maverick...

Dear Editor, According to the IEC a record number of voters in SA, about 29 million, have registered to vote in the local government elections in November. SA has an overall population of about 63 million people of whom approximately 21 million are under 18 years old...

Accountability Now's Paul Hoffman on the Madlanga Commission, IDAC's constitutional risk and 25 years of South Africa's fight against corruption. Published on: 26 Aug 2026 LISTEN HERE: A commission of inquiry can't jail anyone. It can't force government to do anything...

Dear Editor, The Gordons Institute of Business Science boasts an Anti-Corruption Coalition which does good work in the field of righting our ship of state’s capacity to deal with serious corruption and organised crime. Its most recent guest speakers gathered at GIBS...

 Paul Hoffman Professor Pierre de Vos is a professor of constitutional law at UCT. He occupies the Claude Leon chair at that august institution. Jonny Steinberg was a professor of African Studies at Oxford for nine years. The first professor has penned an article...

Dear Editor, In paragraph 33 of the unanimous five judge SCA judgement in Mpumalanga Society of Advocates v Judicial Service Commission and Others (1186/2024) [2026] ZASCA 99 (7 July 2026) a unanimous court found that: ‘[33] The JSC is an organ of State. Accordingly,...

 Paul Hoffman Aug 4, 2026 The Chief Whip of the DA, Glynnis Breytenbach has let it be know that she intends to pilot a private member’s bill, what she calls a “PMB”  through parliament aimed at achieving the repeal of the IDAC legislation which was brought onto the...

 Paul Hoffman Jul 28, 2026 The good reason for closing down IDAC is not the resignation of its leader and her underwhelming showing at the Madlanga Commission. It is that IDAC is not a constitutionally compliant body and has none of the qualities required of it by the...

Hermann Pretorius speaking to Paul Hoffman, founder of Accountability Now! About how to tackle corruption. Paul makes the case for an independent corruption-busting watchdog.

Paul Hoffman Jul 17, 2026 - The media in SA has been abuzz with stories concerning the probity of the relationship between DA members of cabinet (and latterly) of parliament on the one side and Resolve Communications (and its secure-SIM-card-preoccupied clients) on...

Clement Manyathela hosts a dialogue with Advocate Paul Hoffman, Tebogo Khaas and Dr Jean Redpath to reflect on whether the IDAC is functioning as it should after concerns were raised about the cases the unit has pursued lately. The Clement Manyathela Show is broadcast...

Paul Hoffman Jul 15, 2026 For ordinary South Africans, especially those who are unemployed or under-employed, jobs, personal security and corruption are polled as among their main preoccupations. Of the three, corruption is pre-eminent, because it is pivotal to jobs...

Accountability Now’s head of projects Paul Hoffman speaks to Newzroom’s Xoli Mngambi about President Cyril Ramaphosa’s decision to extend the Madlanga Commission’s final report deadline from 31 August to 16 November.

Dear Editor, The appointment of Dinah Pule as minister of social development by president Ramaphosa is vulnerable to judicial review because it lacks rationality. Only the Constitutional Court is empowered by the constitution to review the decision as it involves a...

 Paul Hoffman Jul 6, 2026 According to legend, the Roman emperor Caligula decided to appoint his horse, a magnificent Spanish stallion called Incitatus, as proconsul during a particularly trying time around the dawn of the Christian era. A peek at the history.com...