CAPE TOWN — Founding director of Accountability Now, Paul Hoffman, SC, applies his considerable legal acumen to the newly-popular call for KPMG to ‘make good,’ on its country-devastating Zuptoid collusion by funding and setting up a private corruption-busting unit....
INDEPENDENCE OF THE HAWKS – ANC claims it is fighting corruption, but evidence points the other way
"There can be no gainsaying that corruption threatens to fell at the knees virtually everything we hold dear and precious in our hard-won constitutional order. It blatantly undermines the democratic ethos, the institutions of democracy, the rule of law and the...
The fight for the Scorpions was not in vain
Paul Hoffman says the Glenister cases set important legal precedents. While the naming and shaming of those who voted the Scorpions out of existence is a timely and valuable exercise, there are positives which have emerged from the messy business of changing...
Scorpions scrapping comes back to sting a looted nation
SOME commentators have taken to likening President Jacob Zuma to Humpty Dumpty after his great fall. Their comments may have been elicited by a yolk joke Lindiwe Sisulu slipped into her recent diatribe on racism, or by some subliminal association related to the shape...
Arrest rate shows hobbled Hawks hardly functioning
A YEAR has flown by since the Constitutional Court delivered its judgment in the latest round of public interest litigation in which businessman Bob Glenister and the Helen Suzman Foundation have participated either as applicant or, in the case of the foundation, as...
Hawks incapable of fulfilling their corruption busting role
Durban - The Hawks have become incapable of investigating the politically connected, according to non-profit organisation Accountability Now. Accountability Now head Advocate Paul Hoffman was responding to the contents of a secret forensic investigation published by...
Resolutions of conference key to fighting graft in Africa
ON THE last occasion the Constitutional Court was required to consider the efficacy of the anti-corruption machinery of state in SA, our chief justice, writing for the majority of the court, opened with the following words: "All South Africans across the racial,...
The rise and fall of General Anwa Dramat
It is now, at long last, official. Anwa Dramat, the head of the Hawks, or to give them their statutory name, the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation, has, according to the National Commissioner of Police “resigned” from the police and as the leader of the...
The Constitutional Court Judgment in the Glenister Case
Helen Suzman Foundation v President of the Republic of South Africa and Others; Glenister v President of the Republic of South Africa and Others The Constitutional Court judgment in the matter concerning the independence of the anti-corruption unit in the South...
ICAC: Former Supreme Court judge Stephen Charles calls for federal anti-corruption board
Former Supreme Court judge Stephen Charles has thrown his support behind the creation of a federal anti-corruption body as Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) hearings continue in Sydney. From ABC News in Australia. MORE HERE
Hugh Glenister vs President of the RSA & Others
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Helen Suzman Foundation vs President of the RSA & Others
Heads of argument - Constitutional Court Case
Corruption: The ANC Has A Tall Story To Tell
William Baepi calls himself a "street patroller". He lives in Meadowlands, Soweto and recently had the opportunity of engaging in a lively way with the secretary general of the ANC, Gwede Mantashe, when the latter did some door-to-door canvassing in Soweto. The...
State Attorney’s Notice of Appeal against Western Cape High Court Judgment
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Helen Suzman Foundation & Hugh Glenister vs President of the RSA & Others
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