If President Cyril Ramaphosa does not address this, he will have failed the acid test of leadership 11 February 2021 – 05:09 https://spkt.io/e/1546891 The task of the president in delivering his state of the nation address (Sona) this evening is an unenviable one. The pandemic has the country in its grip; the economy is in […]
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Dangers faced by SA if it loses its grip on the hard-earned Constitutional Democracy – Part 2
Dangers faced by SA if it loses its grip on the hard-earned Constitutional Democracy – Part 1
Advocate Paul Hoffman on Zuma’s defiance of Constitutional Court order
U3A Presentation: Paul Hoffman
Paul Hoffman | The judicial scolding of Jacob Zuma hasn’t worked – it is time to end his impunity
The time for scolding Jacob Zuma as if he is a naughty schoolboy is over. If he doesn’t testify at the Zondo commission, he must go to jail, writes Paul Hoffman. Former president Jacob ZUma leads a charmed life in the courts of SA. He escaped conviction on a charge of rape when in 2006 […]
Keeping the faith with constitutional democracy – it’s not too late to save South Africa
Opinionista • Paul Hoffman • 2 February 2021 If we want to continue to live in a constitutional democracy under the rule of law we ought not to relax our vigilance. The Zuma-era agents are lurking everywhere, only the Guptas have run away to Dubai. The institutional damage done will take years to repair. The […]
LETTER: Don’t let Valli Moosa’s praise of party funding act fool you
Moosa negotiated with Hitachi for the supply of boilers to Eskom’s new power stations at Medupi and Kusile, which made the ANC a large profit 27 January 2021 – 16:15 https://spkt.io/e/1497651 The fulsome praise with which Valli Moosa has greeted the coming into operation of the Political Party Funding Act should fool nobody. It was […]
Is Professor Balthazar a closet admirer of parliamentary sovereignty?
Opinionista • Paul Hoffman • 14 January 2021 The track record of lawfare in SA is long and not inglorious. The NGOs and individuals who have the courage to take up the cudgels of lawfare deserve support and encouragement, not criticism that ignores the tenets and fundamental thrust of the Constitution. https://spkt.io/a/1468806 Daily Maverick’s regular […]
LETTER: Sahpra should give nod to ivermectin
12 January 2021 – 16:20 https://spkt.io/e/1462895 The SA Health Products Regulatory Authority says it has not yet received applications for clinical trials or the registration of Ivermectin, touted by some as a ‘miracle cure’ for Covid-19. Picture: 123RF/ALEXANDER RATHS Tamar Kahn’s report on the use of ivermectin for Covid-19 patients omits an important consideration that […]
