The Directorate of Priority Crime Investigation or Hawks unit of South African Police Services (SAPS) does good work on priority crime. It does very limited work on corruption in high places because of its structural positioning and its operational constraints. As...
Hawks Or Eagles: What Does South Africa Deserve?
(Notes for an address to the Cape Town Press Club on 15 May, 2012) Hawks and Eagles are both raptors. They are birds of prey that live off the live victims of their predatory non-vegetarian appetites. Hawks are small, scarce and susceptible to poisoning. Eagles see...
IFAISA Submissions To The Constitutional Review Committee Of Parliament
Establishment of an Anti-Corruption Commission as a new Chapter Nine Institution. Superfluity of 100% proportional representation at this stage in the history of the democratic development of the nation. Dysfunctional nature of the Judicial Service Commission due to...
Between A Rock And A Hard Place
It is said that in politics a week is a long time. Last week was a short week, and this week is even shorter for some, given the way that the public holidays celebrating freedom day and workers' day have fallen this year. But for the members of the select committee of...
Parliament STIRS On Implementing The Glenister Judgment
In March last year the Constitutional Court found that the Hawks are not sufficiently operationally and structurally independent to constitute the type of anti-corruption entity which the human rights culture of the Constitution requires and which South Africa is...
Memorandum on the objects of the South African Police Service Amendment Bill, 2011
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Various Submissions On The SAPS Amendment Bill
African Policing Civilian Oversight Forum Association of Certified Fraud Examiners Council for the Advancement of the South African Constitution Helen Suzman Foundation Institute for Security Studies Mtende Mhango (Wits School of Law) Prof. Pierre de Vos -...
Submissions On The South African Police Services Amendment Bill
These submissions address the constitutionality of the South African Police Service Amendment Bill, 2012 [B7-2012]. download
IFAISA Anti-Corruption Commission Bill 2012
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IFAISA Constitutional Amendment To Establish An Anti-Corruption Commission
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IFAISA Submission regarding the SA Police Service Amendment Bill 2012
FAISA submissions to the Parliamentary Committee in response to the advertisement placed in the Cape Times newspaper on 9 March 2012 regarding two articles critical of the SAPS and also reportage of the progress of the board of inquiry into the allegations of...
South African Police Service Amendment Bill, 2012
Purpose: To amend the South African Police Service Act, 1995 - explanatory summary of Bill published in Government Gazette. download
Tweaking The Hawks Won’t Cut It
The government is on a collision course concerning its wholly inadequate response to the judgment won by Bob Glenister in the Constitutional Court in March last year regarding the anti-corruption structures in South Africa. Having been given 18 months to pass remedial...
Hawks Or Eagles – What Does SA Need And Deserve?
It must be galling for COSATU, having recently invested millions of rand of its members' hard earned union contributions in the establishment of Corruption Watch, to observe that the political will of the ANC led government to match anti-corruption rhetoric with...
Turkeys Don’t Vote For Xmas
As is its wont, the Department of Justice has waited until everyone is distracted by the year end festivities before slipping into the public domain a little information regarding an important matter. This time it concerns the official response to the judgment of the...
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