Ramaphosa’s extension of lottery probe means another executive-controlled agency nibbling at graft while impunity continues Acting police minister Firoz Cachalia has warned — I’m sure dead-eyed and unblinking — that SA could become “the next Colombia or Ecuador”. He...
Madlanga Commission pregnant with possibilities — but will government heed its counsel?
By Paul Hoffman The acceptance of the recommendations of a commission by the government is no guarantee of their implementation. For example, the Farlam Commission’s call for the urgent demilitarisation of the police has been ignored by the executive. Large swathes of...
In memory of Sarah Christie
On 5 October 2025, one of the founding trustees of Accountability Now, Sarah Christie, passed away at her laptop, working on a Sunday. Sarah was a non-practising attorney, arbitrator, mediator and trainer in employment law and dispute resolution practice and an...
Confronting the paralysis of the anti-corruption capacity of the state
The following is a letter addressed by me to Advocate Arius Dathi of the Office of the Public Protector (OPP). Dear Advocate, Our complaint to the OPP – Complaint regarding paralysis of the anti-corruption capacity of the state in SA – is due to have its first...
MICHAEL AVERY: National democratic revolution is corruption by design
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....
Submission by Accountability Now to the Ad Hoc Committee of the National Assembly investigating the allegations made by Lt. Gen. Mkhwanazi on 6 July 2025.
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...
Discussion | Madlanga Commission | Web of corruption laid bare
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...
Adv Hoffman: SIU report shows the deep rot in Tembisa Hospital looting
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.
LETTER: Rule of law on life support
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...
The former Eskom CEO gives the IRR and the DA a punt
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...
Trajectory favoured by National Anti-Corruption Advisory Council report will end in tears
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...
Approach NACAC report with uttermost caution, Mr President
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...
LETTER: Fatal flaws in the corruption report are intolerable
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...
Yes, there is a viable and constitutionally compliant replacement for SA’s failed BEE
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...
A postscript on greed in SA
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”...
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