Paul Hoffman writes on the key missing ingredient in our system of governance. The challenge of the integrity/trust/confidence/investment vs jobs/poverty alleviation/equality promotion calculation. It works like this: 1. Without firm and established probity in strong...
What is to be done about corruption?
Paul Hoffman says there needs to be a national Integrity Commission, housed in Chapter Nine of Constitution. Corruption is a crime; it follows that the criminal justice administration is or ought to be the appropriate vehicle for dealing with corruption. It is...
An anti-corruption court and a TRC for the corrupt – really?
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...
Ethics commission or Integrity Commission?
The problem at the core of the cancer of corruption currently choking the prospects of peace, progress and prosperity in South Africa is that the incidence of the malady increases in direct proportion to the chances of not being caught. Ismail Lagardien, writing for...
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....
Fighting the corrupt is a process, not an event
Paul Hoffman says security of tenure critical for any future state anti-corruption agency. An unusually high, and somewhat early, equinox tide of critical commentary concerning corruption is washing over the eyes and ears of active citizens who partake of the...
Corporate SA; it’s time to back a clean-up campaign – Paul Hoffman
CAPE TOWN — Every business in South Africa should check out their moral compass, clean up their act, (if necessary), and then get behind a corruption-busting Integrity Commission – or face us all ‘graduating into something terminal’. The cautionary quote comes from...
Superstar’ judge’s pro-poor, anti-corruption message is loud and clear
Judge Mohamed Navsa, Acting Judge President of the Supreme Court of Appeal, is a judge of high standing who made it clear he is on the side of the poor at an annual Stellenbosch University law school address under the topic: “Human rights and the rule of law: bulwarks...
There is legal medicine for a troubled Zweli Mkhize – it is called Eagles
One gathers from the available evidence that the ANC’s Treasurer General, Dr Zweli Mkhize, is one of the better cadres of the ANC. He did, after all, nominate Cyril Ramaphosa for deputy president at Mangaung and joined him earlier this year in his criticism of the...
Creating an accountable SA via an inviolate anti-corruption unit
CAPE TOWN — Just as constitutionally changing the proportional representation system to make politicians individually accountable to the electorate would radically improve our democracy, so too would an inviolate anti-corruption unit. Creating a unit with the...
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...
Advocacy Article on the Integrity Commission
Advocacy article on Integrity Commission
Comparative Analysis of Anti-Corruption Machinery of State
Comparative analysis of anti-corruption machinery of state
In ANC leadership race, support for Integrity Commission is critical
How the good candidates can distinguish themselves from being “more of the same”. At a time of desperate drought in the south and violent flooding in the north; with Sassa melting down the hopes of the grant-reliant poor and “radical economic transformation”...
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