Opinionista • Paul Hoffman • 31 August 2021 Whistle-blowers in South Africa are inadequately protected against murder, intimidation, unfair labour practices and being shunned in the workplace for not being ‘team players’ in situations in which the ‘team’ is actually a...
Community called to back anti-corruption body
on Aug 26, 2021 ByTali Feinberg A proposition for a new, independent anti-corruption body landed on President Cyril Ramaphosa’s desk on Tuesday, 24 August, and those who have spent years toiling to make it happen are asking the South African Jewish community to...
Why SA needs an Integrity Commission – Paul Hoffman
Paul Hoffman SC is with Accountability Now, an organisation which describes itself as being “devoted to ensuring the rule of law is upheld and enforced for the good of all by ensuring that governments, parastatals and the private sector are held to account.” The...
LETTER: ANC must address issues urgently and proactively
Paul Hoffman suggests a few interventions to address the economic hardships that will flow from last week's unrest 19 July 2021 - 11:49 Paul Hoffman If the ANC wishes to avoid reaching its “expiry date” within the next election cycle, it will have to address a few...
One swallow does not a summer make
Aristotle wrote in his first book of Ethics: 'One swallow makes no summer, nor does one day'; the day that saw Jacob Zuma incarcerated for civil contempt of court is such a day. Since 2013 charges against Zuma of theft and fraud in relation to the...
Time to go hell for leather and outsource the recovery of the State Capture racketeers’ loot
Opinionista • Paul Hoffman • 13 June 2021 With swift civil recovery procedures available worldwide, the harnessing of lawyers in private practice to supplement the efforts of the Special Investigating Unit ought to have a back-straightening effect on those who are...
The A Team’s notes for discussion, during SAHRC and OPP conference on corruption and human rights, regarding reform of anti-corruption machinery of state.
Creation of effective and efficient anti-corruption machinery of state is an international obligation of the state and is underpinned in SA by binding Constitutional Court findings in the Glenister trilogy of cases in which corruption is identified as a human rights...
Zondo Commission ends but South Africans still have work to do – Chuck Stephens
7th April 2021 by Melani Nathan The Zondo commission has exposed the rot and disease of corruption for all to see. When the inquiry draws to a close this month, the spotlight will fade but Chuck Stephens reminds South Africans that the fight against corruption must...
Security of tenure of office is crucial to the independence of corruption busters
By Paul Hoffman* A stand-alone, investigative institution is needed to combat corruption – Paul Hoffman 6th April 2021 by Jarryd Neves It’s no secret that corruption is the scourge of South Africa. Millions of misappropriated funds have been swindled from the national...
It takes more than a single agency to fight corruption
18 March 2021 - 13:44 Steven Gruzd Human instinct is to set up an institution to deal with big problems. That’s one reason we have so many ministries of this, that and the other. But establishing yet another body — on its own — will not necessarily resolve endemic...
LETTER: Focused anti-graft agency needed
The essence of political will is to ensure insulation from political interference 23 March 2021 - 10:00 https://spkt.io/e/1692847 My thinking on the issue of fighting corruption is in sync with that of Paul Hoffman of Accountability Now (“Criminal justice reform lacks...
LETTER: Criminal justice reform lacks political will
22 March 2021 - 20:14 https://spkt.io/e/1691450 Steven Gruzd omits two important factors from his discussion of the topic of the reform of the criminal justice administration in SA (“It takes more than a single agency to fight corruption”, March 18). The...
Paul Hoffman | The judicial scolding of Jacob Zuma hasn’t worked – it is time to end his impunity
The time for scolding Jacob Zuma as if he is a naughty schoolboy is over. If he doesn't testify at the Zondo commission, he must go to jail, writes Paul Hoffman. Former president Jacob ZUma leads a charmed life in the courts of SA. He escaped conviction on a charge of...
LETTER: Without an interim interdict for Zuma not to attend, he must be made to do so
The justices are obliged by section 237 of the constitution to act diligently and without delay 18 January 2021 - 13:58 I refer to the delay in delivering judgment in the matter between the state capture commission and Jacob Zuma. From the coverage of the...
Getting real about countering corruption at long last.
*An earlier, shorter version of this analysis was published by DM on 11 January 2021.* The “January eighth statement” by the leadership of the ANC is intended to inform, inspire and encourage those who remain faithful to the tripartite alliance, (the movement, the...
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