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...
What Next For Zuma, The NPA And Other Losers In The DA challenge?
When it is taken into consideration that the Democratic Alliance (DA) first launched its application for a judicial review of the decision of then ANDPP, Advocate Molokoti Mpshe, not to prosecute then private citizen Jacob Zuma in April 2009, the words which fell from...
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...
To whom is the Chief Justice referring?
Using the occasion of the oration he gave at the state funeral of the late Judge President of the Land Claims Court, Fikile Bam, the new Chief Justice, Mogoeng Mogoeng, took a swipe at those he called "vicious" critics of the judiciary and sitting judges. Singling out...
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...
Presentation of Honorary Doctorate to George Bizos SC
UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA PRESENTATION OF HONORARY DOCTORATE TO GEORGE BIZOS SC DELIVERED AT SPRING GRADUATION CEREMONY 9 DECEMBER 2011 By: Advocate George Bizos SC Constitutional Litigation Unit Legal Resources Centre BLAME NEITHER THE CONSTITUTION NOR THE COURTS It is...
ECAAR-SA Annual Report By: Terry Crawford-Browne
The South African Arms Deal After 15 years since the 1996-1998 parliamentary Defence Review, I have finally on 17 November 2011 succeeded in South Africa's Constitutional Court (counterpart of the US Supreme Court) in forcing President Jacob Zuma to appoint a judicial...
Open Letter To Vas Soni SC
Dear Vas, Congratulations on your appointment as chief evidence leader in the Seriti Commission of Inquiry into wrongdoing in the procurement of armaments for the new South Africa. This is indubitably the brief of your life and a golden opportunity to assist the...
The Vaulting Ambition of Mogoeng Mogoeng
A tragedy of Shakespearian proportions played itself out when the Judicial Service Commission met over the weekend of 3rd to 4th September 2011 to interview the "preferred candidate" of Jacob Zuma for the post of Chief Justice of South Africa. As occurred in Macbeth,...
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