It is reported that the Catholic Bishops Conference favours the establishment of a specialised anti corruption court, while the SA Council of Churches is flirting with the idea of a TRC type process for the corrupt. Both of these proposals have the constitutionalists...
Hoffman scotches Gordhan’s demand for KPMG to fund an anti-corruption unit
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...
Press Release: Quaker Peace Centre seeks to overturn R35 billion in Arms Deal
The Quaker Peace Centre (QPC) has instituted a claim against the South African government to cancel that component of the Arms Deal with British Aerospace [Operations] limited (BAe) and to recover some R35 billion for the beleaguered SA fiscus. The claim which is...
Summons and Particulars of Claim – BAe Arms Deal
The action instituted by the Quaker Peace Centre concentrates on the biggest of the arms deals, that with BAe. It is intended to set a precedent. In terms of this deal, Hawk and Gripen fighter jets were acquired at a cost of R35 billion [at 2015 currency exchange...
Corruption or defeating the ends of justice complaint against the President and the Minister of Justice – 20th July 2015
20th July 2015 Dear Mr Mantashe, We refer to our letter of 23 June 2015 addressed to you, a copy of which is attachment “B” to the affidavit that is attached to this email. We do not appear to have received any formal acknowledgment or reply, nor has any public...
S v Zuma and Masuthu Ocean View CAS 87/07/2015 – charges of corruption and defeating the ends of justice under investigation by the Hawks
3 November 2016 Dear Major General, Further to our recent telephonic conversations and your queries regarding the corruption charges arising out of the “retirement” of Mr M Nxasana, we attach the supplementary affidavit you require together with your letter of...
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...
Court bid to veto Zuma as president could save SA
WHAT is to be done about the disastrous accountability reversals at the end of last year? Concerned citizens have organised petitions and protests to express their dismay. A tax boycott is mooted by some. Leading members of the African National Congress (ANC),...
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,...
Letter to Dr Cassius Lubisi from Adv Hoffman
Director General in the Presidency Dr Cassius Lubisi Tuynhuys Private Bag X1000 Cape Town 8000 7th August 2015 Dear Dr Lubisi Re: enquiry into the fitness for office of three Deputy National Directors of Public Prosecution in order to ascertain whether or not they...
Marikana: State must do the right thing now and accept civil liability
THE publication in the Government Gazette of the hard copy of the report of the Farlam Commission of Inquiry into the incidents at Marikana in 2012 presents a suitable opportunity to reassess the reams of commentary critical of the findings of the commission. It seems...
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