Opinionista • Paul Hoffman • 12 May 2020 The trail of destruction left by the pandemic presents an opportunity to reconsider the culture of grand corruption with impunity, which imperils the future of humankind in ways more insidious and continuous than the pandemic....
Survival vs RET
Paul Hoffman | 04 May 2020 Paul Hoffman says NDR ideology is elbowing out public health concerns in administration of lockdown Survival of the nation trumps the revolutionary transformation of the economy 2 May 2020 When the National Accord was painstakingly...
The FACTI Panel – taking a new look at an old problem
Opinionista • Paul Hoffman • 30 April 2020 Among all the distractions of the Covid-19 pandemic, an important development at the United Nations – initiated by the President of the General Assembly and the President of the Economic and Social Council – has not received...
The US Supreme Court is to hear cases online to comply with social distancing measures.
The US Supreme Court is to hear cases online to comply with social distancing measures. In the UK courts are also migrating to a digital reality in response to the Covid19 pandemic. The above courts understand that they cannot fulfil their role as guardians of the law...
Lockdown lawyers should be praised – not condemned
Opinionista • Stephen Koen • 15 April 2020 Lawyers who think they are above the law – that was the description of a group of legal eagles who were reprimanded after appearing in court without having permits to break the lockdown. But at least one attorney doesn’t...
Just how legal is the lockdown and its extension?
Opinionista • Paul Hoffman • 13 April 2020 The amelioration of the regulations to render them more constitutionally compliant ought to be an urgent priority of the Cabinet. Ending the authoritarian excesses, both in content and implementation, is the right way...
Address the cause of police brutality and the symptoms will abate
Paul Hoffman | 09 April 2020 Paul Hoffman writes on the crude and sometimes deadly manner the SAPS have implemented the lockdown Address the cause of police brutality and the symptoms will abate 9 April 2020 A controversy has been sparked by the way in which police...
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Ten lessons to learn from the coronavirus pandemic
By Paul Hoffman ‘Doctors without Borders on steroids’ – 10 goals for dealing with ‘unseen enemy’ – Paul Hoffman 30th March 2020 by Linda van Tilburg The coronavirus is spreading across the planet and countries that thought that they are immune to events on the other...
‘Doctors without Borders on steroids’ – 10 goals for dealing with ‘unseen enemy’ – Paul Hoffman
30th March 2020 by Linda van Tilburg The coronavirus is spreading across the planet and countries that thought that they are immune to events on the other side of the world, are falling like dominoes to this ‘unseen enemy’. Scientists are fearing that for Africa it...
WHO urged to condemn ‘wet’ wild animal markets linked to outbreak
Conservation groups call on world body to fight illegal sales of creatures known to harbour viruses https://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/187/reader/reader.html?#!preferred/0/package/187/pub/187/page/38/article/30989
THE CORONA VIRUS PRAYER
Almighty God, creator of all earthly life: Bless the efforts and strengthen the resolve of those working to contain and on a cure to the worldwide corona virus pandemic. Grant those who suffer or die of COVID-19, and those who are afraid of it, your peace. Guide the...
The effect of the fall of Tobruk on my life: Reflecting and remembering
Opinionista • Paul Hoffman • 31 March 2020 After only three days of the strangeness of isolation brought on by the nationwide lockdown to counter the Covid-19 pandemic, I find my thoughts wandering into corners of my psyche seldom visited during the workaday routine...
THE SURVEILLANCE STATE AND THE LOSS OF LIBERTY.
First there was FICA, then there was RICA and now there is Covid-19. The Financial Intelligence Centre Act (FICA) was introduced in mulish compliance with the initiatives that came out of America, following the attacks of 9/11, and with the ostensible objective of...
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