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...

National dialogue needs to assess the tenets of the national democratic revolution and the values of the constitution 14 August 2025 - 13:49 Moeletsi Mbeki, brother of the former SA president, has put his head above the parapet to suggest the national dialogue has...

Old habits die hard. It could reasonably have been anticipated, after the tripartite alliance majority in the sixth parliament ended in the May 2024 general elections, that the bad governance habits of the past would end, and a new era in politics would begin. No such...

07 August 2025 Paul Hoffman says president seems to have forgotten the terms of the invitation to join the GNU free of NDR baggage It beggars belief that the president managed to get through wrapping up the most recent meeting of the NEC of the ANC (its top...

Ruling on whether Ramaphosa has a case to answer in the Phala Phala saga is long overdue 07 August 2025 - 15:57 In SA the handing down of judgments by our superior courts is governed by judicial norms and standards, with the aim of ensuring timely and efficient...

The African Case for an International Anti-Corruption Court By Justice Richard Goldstone, Dr Ruth Kolevsohn, and Koogan Pillay The foundation of any just society rests on the recognition and respect for the dignity of its people, and the corresponding role of the...

 Paul Hoffman The fallout from General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi’s incendiary revelations at his 6 July briefing has now reached three of the four organs of state which could be involved in addressing his concerns. The executive has had the chairs in cabinet re-arranged by...

Failure to implement the Glenister findings is at the heart of the corruption malaise 27 July 2025 - 20:04 The first and most urgent work of the Madlanga commission of inquiry is to examine the utility of the laws and policies in place in SA for countering the...

The President's continued use of Commissions of Inquiry, to try and curb corruption remains under scrutiny. Advocate Paul Hoffman of Accountability Now, argues that the terms of reference in the Madlanga Inquiry are too broad. #eNCA #DStv403 #QuestionThinkAct

By Paul Hoffman Paul Hoffman was lead counsel in the Glenister litigation. The vast breadth of the mandate given to the commission of inquiry headed by Acting Deputy Chief Justice Mbuyiseli Madlanga will keep it busy for years, doing work a functioning criminal...

On 11 July 2025 Accountability Now addressed an email to the President. It reads as follows: We write this open letter to you in advance of your address to the nation scheduled for 7pm on Sunday 13 July 2025. We hope that our intervention will assist you in the...