NDR is incompatible with constitution, but when business mobilises collectively it can shift the balance Our domestic worker arrived at work yesterday visibly shaken. The day before she went to withdraw R4,000 from an ATM in the Joburg CBD. Three tsotsis followed her....

A F F I D A V I T Addendum: Notes on the Accountability Now submission to the ad hoc committee of the National Assembly investigating the complaint made by General N Mkhwanazi on 6 July 2025 Supplementary Note on the Accountability Now submission to the ad hoc...

Watch Interview Here: https://www.enca.com/videos/discussion-madlanga-commission-web-corruption-laid-bare JOHANNESBURG - The Madlanga Commission has revealed shocking claims of corruption and political interference in South Africa’s justice system. While the...

Advocate Paul Hoffman from Accountability Now believes that the interim report by the Special Investigating Unit, tailing its investigation into corruption into the looting of the Tembisa Hospital already proves how deep the rot of corruption in this matter is.

If Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi is believed, he will emerge as a whistleblowing hero for exposing criminal enterprise gripping power 18 September 2025 - 16:13 The first day of the hearings of the Madlanga commission contained cogent indications that National Prosecuting...

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...