Paul Hoffman writes the president should give Andre de Ruyter a mandate to draft his SONA for February 2026 Andre de Ruyter, former Eskom CEO, resorted to a tried and tested device when he addressed the Biznews Conference in place of MIA Fikile Mbalula last week. He...

By Paul Hoffman Both the Cabinet and Parliament ought to reject the council’s seriously flawed recommendations and instead embrace the formation of a new Chapter 9 Anti-Corruption Commission. At the end of August 2022, President Cyril Ramaphosa decided to appoint a...

In his most recent weekly newsletter dated 8 September 2025, the President, Cyril Ramaphosa, reflects on the final report of the National Anti-Corruption Advisory Council (NACAC) which he received at the end of August 2025. The President’s newsletter has been...

The cabinet is not obliged to accept Nacac’s recommendations and should not do so The final report by the National Anti-Corruption Advisory Council (Nacac), delivered to the president at the end of August, reveals some obviously hard work on its mandate (for which...

By Paul Hoffman Can it possibly be right that untold wealth has landed in the lap of the BEE beneficiaries while poverty, inequality and joblessness grow exponentially in South Africa? Your energetic columnist Stephen Grootes is concerned about what will replace Black...

My piece of 24 August, Greed in SA the deadliest of the nation’s many sins, attracted a few comments, one of which is deserving of a response in clarification of a rather obscure aspect of the law. The comment in question, under the nom de plume “The Passing Show”...

But the acting police minister wants the KwaZulu-Natal dockets to languish in limbo in Pretoria 01 September 2025 - 17:07 The acting police minister, a former law professor and erstwhile chair of the National Anti-Corruption Advisory Council (Nacac), is at loggerheads...

Paul Hoffman | 02 September 2025 Paul Hoffman says a plan for the future of the anti-corruption machinery of state is urgently required in SA Based upon a report in Business Day on 1 September, 2025, Legalbrief Today reports, on 2 September, that: “The National...

The Chancellor of the University of the Free State, Bonang Mohale, made a telling observation recently, when receiving an award in the USA. “The great problem for South Africa is rampant greed,” he said, “[It] is essentially a problem for the once glorious African...

National democratic revolution is inconsistent with the rule of law and constitution 21 August 2025 - 13:50 Whether the president walks, swims and quacks like a lame duck is a matter of some moment for the future of SA. He invited all political parties represented in...

National dialogue needs to assess the tenets of the national democratic revolution and the values of the constitution 14 August 2025 - 13:49 Moeletsi Mbeki, brother of the former SA president, has put his head above the parapet to suggest the national dialogue has...

Old habits die hard. It could reasonably have been anticipated, after the tripartite alliance majority in the sixth parliament ended in the May 2024 general elections, that the bad governance habits of the past would end, and a new era in politics would begin. No such...

07 August 2025 Paul Hoffman says president seems to have forgotten the terms of the invitation to join the GNU free of NDR baggage It beggars belief that the president managed to get through wrapping up the most recent meeting of the NEC of the ANC (its top...

Ruling on whether Ramaphosa has a case to answer in the Phala Phala saga is long overdue 07 August 2025 - 15:57 In SA the handing down of judgments by our superior courts is governed by judicial norms and standards, with the aim of ensuring timely and efficient...

The African Case for an International Anti-Corruption Court By Justice Richard Goldstone, Dr Ruth Kolevsohn, and Koogan Pillay The foundation of any just society rests on the recognition and respect for the dignity of its people, and the corresponding role of the...