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Finance minister has the power to follow the Gupta money trail and recover misappropriated funds. Most responses to the invitation to give tips to our new minister of finance concentrate on ways of scrimping, saving and stretching the somewhat limited public purse to temper the wind to the shorn lambs in our midst. The finance […]

Letter to Minister Tito Mboweni Letter to Minister Nene regarding fiscal shortfall.docx G Budlender SC Opinion on S 217 and Barclays PLC loan agreement

In a non-racial and non-sexist order, race and gender are irrelevant in the choice of candidates for elections. Freedom of association permits the human race to vote as it sees fit for whatever gender or “race”. The Black Lawyers Association has “welcomed and accepted” the outcome of the elections for the new Legal Practice Council. […]

There is trouble brewing in the legal professions regarding their representation on a new body, the Legal Practice Council. No-one seems to want to vote for the body. Legalbrief Today reported on September 26 that “the Law Society of SA is urging practitioners to vote for members for the new Legal Practice Council in the […]

It is important to the survival of constitutional democracy that the judiciary should function as a well-oiled machine that is responsive and accountable to the needs of the people. It is important to the survival of constitutional democracy that the judiciary should function as a well-oiled machine that is responsive and accountable to the needs […]

Accountability Now & CTPC challenge government to establish an integrity commission to deal with Hawks dysfunctionality Cape Town, 26 September 2018: Anti-corruption watchdog, Accountability Now and the Cape Town Peace Centre have challenged the dysfunctionality of the Hawks, in a letter of demand and accompanying draft affidavit to the state attorney and to government. The […]

If President Cyril Ramaphosa is serious about “ending corruption”, as he puts it, government will have to create a strong, purpose-built public institution to do the work at hand. He says so himself, but he does nothing. The analysis in Daily Maverick by David Bruce, independent researcher for the ISS, concerning the state of the […]

Transparency International has published its progress report for 2018 in which it assesses enforcement of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention. TI calls itself a global movement (with more than 100 chapters) with one vision: “A world in which government, business, civil society and the daily lives of people are free of corruption.”  The report sets out […]

JOHANNESBURG — What is supposed to be South Africa’s elite crime-busting unit, the Hawks, is in disarray after years of Zuptoid interference. As Paul Hoffman, a senior counsel and the driving force behind the Institute for Accountability in SA eloquently explains in the piece below, the Hawks have been completely hollowed out and may never […]

Former ANC spin doctor, Zizi Kodwa, insists that the ANC is not on trial before the Zondo Commission sitting in Parktown to inquire into the phenomenon of grand corruption that has become commonly known as the “capture of the state”. Kodwa is quite wrong. Here’s why. According to the “strategy and tactics” documentation of the […]