By Rebecca Davis• 24 October 2020 Since Daily Maverick 168 reported on the desperate financial conditions faced by State Capture whistle-blowers, there are new signs of hope for these individuals. https://spkt.io/a/1179656 First published in Daily Maverick 168...
LETTER: NEC’s fraud resolution is being ignored
Disdain for its resolution ought to give rise to an interesting discussion at its next meeting 22 November 2020 - 18:16 The work of the reference group that produced the national anticorruption strategy has failed to take cognisance of the input of the national...
LETTER: NEC’s fraud resolution is being ignored
Disdain for its resolution ought to give rise to an interesting discussion at its next meeting 22 November 2020 - 18:16 The work of the reference group that produced the national anticorruption strategy has failed to take cognisance of the input of the national...
Lest we forget: Some in the judiciary and the media also aided State Capture
Opinionista • Paul Hoffman • 21 October 2020 The media and the judiciary have played key roles in exposing the State Capture project of the Jacob Zuma years. But let’s not forget that both institutions had their dark sides; accountability demands that both be...
LETTER: NPA move both encouraging and sinister
The NPA cannot be reformed quickly enough; a new institution with carefully vetted personnel and no ‘saboteurs’ is required 20 October 2020 - 13:29 https://spkt.io/a/1160507 Claudi Mailovich’s article on National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) head Shamila Batohi’s...
The practicalities of creating capable ‘corruption busters’ for SA
Opinionista • Paul Hoffman • 15 October 2020 The ANC NEC’s proposal to set up a corruption-busting body needs to be acted on. Taking the investigation of grand corruption away from the Hawks to a new agency will relieve the Hawks of a mandate that they have never been...
LETTER: Skilled law-making is surest way to stop weakness in criminal justice administration
There is no prospect of either the NPA or the Hawks being able to attract the right personnel in time to save SA from failure as a state 10 September 2020 - 13:11 https://app.speechkit.io/api/v2/projects/694/podcasts/iframe.html Picture: 123RF/SKYCINEMA During his...
Archbishop Thabo Makgoba calls for Chapter Nine corruption-fighters
Dear Bishop, Bishop Elect and Vicars General Greetings. Herewith for your informataion, the Archbishop’s Contribution to SACC Service held 30 August 2020: The Archbishop's contributon to an SACC Anti-Corruption Service held on Sunday August 30 to launch the SACC...
Time for the ANC’s Integrity Commission to bare its fangs
Opinionista • Paul Hoffman • 31 August 2020 It is interesting to examine the track record of President Cyril Ramaphosa’s accusers – Jacob Zuma, Tony Yengeni and Andile Lungisa – and marvel at their ability to retain their membership of an organisation that, on paper,...
Faith and corruption: The religious sector has an important role to play in the fight against malfeasance
Opinionista • Brij Maharaj • 24 August 2020 This is not a time for silence. The SA Hindu Maha Sabha supports the demands for accountability, transparency and consequences for the looters of Covid-19 funds and all forms of corruption. Om asato ma satgamaya, Tamaso ma...
Bright lights are shining on the virus of corruption – now for action
Opinionista • Paul Hoffman • 25 August 2020 The battle against corruption has been given major impetus by President Cyril Ramaphosa’s ‘Dear Comrades’ letter, and by an earlier ANC NEC resolution to call on the government to establish a ‘multi-disciplinary agency’ to...
The NPA is unfit for purpose. Let’s start again – Paul Hoffman
19th August 2020 by Renee Moodie Corruption-busting advocate Paul Hoffman takes a look at recent events surrounding the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA). He concludes that there is only one reasonable inference to be drawn from a sad litany of “inaction, poor...
Business Day TV – PPE CORRUPTION
Michael Avery speaks to Advocate Paul Hoffman, director of Accountability Now; Colin Coleman, Senior Fellow and Lecturer at Yale University's Jackson Institute for Global Affairs ex CEO of Goldman Sachs SA and Wayne Duvenage, CEO of OUTA, about the other pandemic that...
Mr President, your new anti-corruption Hub won’t work
Opinionista • Paul Hoffman • 27 July 2020 The President’s new crime-busting Hub set up to target Covid-19 corruption and abuse of funds will work no better than the Zuma-era Anti-Corruption Task Team. Instead, an Integrity Commission should be set up under Chapter...
The sine qua non of a 10-point plan to rescue South Africa
Opinionista • Paul Hoffman • 21 July 2020 Colin Coleman has presented an important plan for how to turn South Africa’s fortunes around, but without the immediate, effective, well-resourced implementation of a war on kleptocracy and rampant corruption, it will fail....
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