Opinionista • Paul Hoffman • 31 August 2020 It is interesting to examine the track record of President Cyril Ramaphosa’s accusers – Jacob Zuma, Tony Yengeni and Andile Lungisa – and marvel at their ability to retain their membership of an organisation that, on paper,...
The NPA is unfit for purpose. Let’s start again – Paul Hoffman
19th August 2020 by Renee Moodie Corruption-busting advocate Paul Hoffman takes a look at recent events surrounding the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA). He concludes that there is only one reasonable inference to be drawn from a sad litany of “inaction, poor...
Business Day TV – PPE CORRUPTION
Michael Avery speaks to Advocate Paul Hoffman, director of Accountability Now; Colin Coleman, Senior Fellow and Lecturer at Yale University's Jackson Institute for Global Affairs ex CEO of Goldman Sachs SA and Wayne Duvenage, CEO of OUTA, about the other pandemic that...
Mr President, your new anti-corruption Hub won’t work
Opinionista • Paul Hoffman • 27 July 2020 The President’s new crime-busting Hub set up to target Covid-19 corruption and abuse of funds will work no better than the Zuma-era Anti-Corruption Task Team. Instead, an Integrity Commission should be set up under Chapter...
The sine qua non of a 10-point plan to rescue South Africa
Opinionista • Paul Hoffman • 21 July 2020 Colin Coleman has presented an important plan for how to turn South Africa’s fortunes around, but without the immediate, effective, well-resourced implementation of a war on kleptocracy and rampant corruption, it will fail....
Corruption: Now more than ever we need an integrity commission – IFP
Narend Singh | 08 July 2020 Narend Singh says current anti-corruption structures are slow to react The losing battle against corruption: Now more than ever we need an integrity commission 8 July 2020 The devastating impact of many years of corruption have left an...
LETTER: Without a Chapter 9 Integrity Commission, state thievery will continue
It is a poor reflection on SA’s commitment to clean up after the Zuma era that Steinhoff is paying for a probe of its own malfeasance by its own previous directors 23 June 2020 - 17:21 In your editorial in praise of the VBS Mutual Bank initial prosecutions, the...
Cyril kicks the corruption can further down the road to ruin.
By Paul Hoffman Paul Hoffman The long-awaited SONA2020 brought no comfort to those who want this year to be the “Year of the Orange Overalls” for the corrupt. This happy state is what Archbishop Thabo Makgoba called for during his Christmas Eve sermon last December....
Prosecution service can start going after bigwigs among the corrupt
Suspects in grand corruption were not investigated and prosecuted as they should have been 30 July 2019 - 05:10 Paul Hoffman Speaking at an event organised in memory of the late Kader Asmal, our new National Director of Public Prosecutions, Shamila Batoyi, pointed...
Email to the President dated 25 March 2019, concerning the establishment of an Integrity Commission under Chapter Nine of the Constitution.
Dear Mr President, According to media reports, you have established an Investigative Directorate (the Unit) within the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) to deal with grand corruption. We have publicly expressed our reservations about the constitutionality of this...
LETTER: Jacob Zuma gets some of his own medicine
The former president defamed Billy Downer dreadfully in an affidavit filed in his filibustering application for a permanent stay of his prosecution 15 April 2019 - 05:04 (Business Day) Jacob Zuma. Picture: SUPPLIED Karyn Maughan reports that prosecutor Billy Downer,...
LETTER: Voters should not tolerate corruption
The Hawks and the NPA constitute twin structures that have not been — and will never be — fit for countering grand corruption, state capture and kleptocracy in SA 21 March 2019 - 08:00 FinancialMail National Director of Public Prosecutions, Advocate Shamila Batohi....
Ramaphosa’s NPA investigative unit: An unknown compromise
By Greg Nicolson• 22 March 2019 • Daily Maverick Newly appointed National Director of Public Prosecutions (NDPP) Advocate Shamila President Cyril Ramaphosa signed a proclamation this week to establish a new anti-corruption unit within the NPA. It was a compromise born...
How the ConCourt dropped the ball on systemic corruption
Koos Malan - Paul Hoffman | 19 March 2019 Koos Malan and Paul Hoffman revisit the majority and minority opinions in "Glenister III" The Concourt contribution to sacrificing the rule of law on the altar of transformationism Helen Suzman Foundation v President of the...
Political will is critical if the fight against corruption is to gain ground
The creation of an integrity commission deserves urgent support 24 June 2018 - 00:00 By UNATHI MPHENDU and NATASJA HOLTZHAUSEN (Sunday Times) In 2005, an era before the shutters came down on effective corruption-busting in South Africa, Scorpions mount a raid on Jacob...
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